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New WHO report highlights the alarming state of global access to insulin and diabetes care

A new report published by WHO in the lead-up to World Diabetes Day highlights the alarming state of global access to insulin and diabetes care, and finds that high prices, low availability of human insulin, few producers dominating the insulin market and weak health systems are the main barriers to universal access.

15 Nov 2021

Vaccination model for endemic COVID-19

The current model is meant to provide an understanding of what might happen in the future, with periods of very low infection prevalence, interspersed between surges that have ever-lower peaks.

15 Nov 2021

Your out-of-pocket health care costs need not be a mystery

If you've ever had a serious illness or cared for someone who has, you know how quickly the medical bills can pile up: from labs, radiology clinics, pharmacies, doctors, different departments within the same hospital — some of them in your insurance network, others not.

15 Nov 2021

How rural communities are losing their pharmacies

Batson's Drug Store seems like a throwback to a simpler time. The independently owned pharmacy in Howard, Kansas, still runs an old-fashioned soda counter and hand-dips ice cream. But the drugstore, the only one in the entire county, teeters on the edge between nostalgia and extinction.

15 Nov 2021

Exercise reduces arm and shoulder disability, pain in women recovering after breast cancer surgery

The debilitating arm and shoulder disability and pain that some women who have had breast cancer surgery experience as a side effect of their surgery can be reduced by following a physiotherapy-led exercise programme after their operation, a new study has found.

15 Nov 2021

A non-mechanistic approach to real-time forecasting of U.S. COVID-19 pandemic

A new study introduces the non-mechanistic MIT-LCP forecasting model and compares its performance to other models for forecasting COVID-19 dynamics.

14 Nov 2021

Study finds benefits, drawbacks to two-step surgical approach for mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation

Patients with mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation, a condition sometimes called "leaky heart valves," appeared to do better after two years if they had a tricuspid valve repair at the time of mitral valve surgery, according to a study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health.

14 Nov 2021

CDC's NIOSH to host a special virtual event on the mental health of critical health workforce

CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will host a special virtual event with NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, and other national experts from labor and medicine on the mental health of the nation's critical health workforce.

12 Nov 2021

Newly identified proteins in fungal biofilms provide potential drug targets to impair antimicrobial defenses

The microbes that make us sick often have ways to evade our attacks against them. Perhaps chief among these strategies is a sticky, armor-like goo, called the biofilm matrix, that encases clusters of disease-causing organisms.

12 Nov 2021

Study highlights racialized inequities in New York City police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates

New York City ZIP codes with a higher percentage of Black residents had significantly higher rates of COVID-19-specific criminal court summonses and public health and nuisance arrests in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

12 Nov 2021

Public Health News and Research

New WHO report highlights the alarming state of global access to insulin and diabetes care

Vaccination model for endemic COVID-19

Your out-of-pocket health care costs need not be a mystery

How rural communities are losing their pharmacies

Exercise reduces arm and shoulder disability, pain in women recovering after breast cancer surgery

A non-mechanistic approach to real-time forecasting of U.S. COVID-19 pandemic

Study finds benefits, drawbacks to two-step surgical approach for mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation

CDC's NIOSH to host a special virtual event on the mental health of critical health workforce

Newly identified proteins in fungal biofilms provide potential drug targets to impair antimicrobial defenses

Study highlights racialized inequities in New York City police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates

Researchers develop a rapid, non-invasive exhaled breath screening system for COVID-19

Potential remaining COVID-19 burden in European countries

Will the future of global health rely upon addressing air pollution?

How low can they go? Rural hospitals weigh keeping obstetric units when births decline

Vaccinated patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Norway spend fewer days in the hospital

RT-LAMP coupled solid-state nanopores for SARS-CoV-2 detection

Research shows link between exercise and better mental health

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Why health care is so expensive, chapter $22K

Long-lasting anti-spike and anti-membrane antibodies can differentiate between COVID-19 infection and vaccination

New Delta sublineage shows no additional resistance to neutralization

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The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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