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As demand for mental health care spikes, budget ax set to strike

When the pandemic hit, health officials in Montana's Beaverhead County had barely begun to fill a hole left by the 2017 closure of the local public assistance office, mental health clinic, chemical dependency center and job placement office after the state's last budget shortfall.

5 Feb 2021

FDA schedules meeting to discuss EUA request for Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) on Feb. 26, 2021, to discuss the request for emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 vaccine from Janssen Biotech Inc.

5 Feb 2021

FDA continues to support the development of medical products to tackle new virus variants

As the public health agency responsible for regulating medical products, we must ensure that health care providers have the most up-to-date diagnostics, treatments and vaccines in their toolbox to fight this pandemic.

5 Feb 2021

Study: Black people are less likely to live near hospitals that administer COVID-19 vaccines

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and West Health Policy Center found that in many parts of the country, Black people are less likely than white people to live near a pharmacy, clinic, hospital or health center that can administer COVID-19 vaccines.

5 Feb 2021

UCI Institute for Future Health to address movement toward personalized healthcare model

A newly established Institute for Future Health at the University of California, Irvine will combine research and clinical work to address the movement toward a more personalized healthcare model.

5 Feb 2021

CHiPS program reduces unwanted sexual contact among U.S. Air Force cadets

Sexual assault and sexual harassment are significant problems in the U.S. military and military service academies in the United States.

5 Feb 2021

Study: Social distancing also reduces the chances of contracting COVID-19

Considering the greater good by social distancing during a pandemic turns out to have an attractive personal benefit: A new study has found that staying away from others also reduces an individual person's chances of contracting COVID-19.

5 Feb 2021

GSA experts propose strategies to address dementia-related psychosis

A new white paper from The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) highlights the variety of challenges that persons with dementia-related psychosis and their caregivers have encountered during moves through different health care settings -- and proposes strategies to address these challenges.

5 Feb 2021

Study: Only 14% of the Bernese population developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

In the canton of Bern, only 14% of the adult population were infected with the coronavirus and developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.

4 Feb 2021

Study shows psychological impact of perceived COVID-19 health threat among Black Americans

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate communities worldwide, Black Americans who face racial discrimination in hospitals and doctor's offices weather additional stresses that can exacerbate threats from COVID-19.

4 Feb 2021

Experimental vaccine diminishes fatal respiratory effects of synthetic opioids

As the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force during COVID-19, the Scripps Research laboratory of chemist Kim Janda, PhD, has been working on new therapeutic interventions that may be able to prevent the bulk of deaths from opioid overdose.

4 Feb 2021

Race may play an important role in children's food allergies

Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than White children, in addition to having higher odds of wheat allergy, suggesting that race may play an important role in how children are affected by food allergies, researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center and two other hospitals have found.

4 Feb 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Covid and kids

Nearly a year into the pandemic, many public schools are still closed to in-person instruction. But while there is increasing evidence that schools are not a major source of infection, teachers and staffers remain concerned about going back to class before they are vaccinated.

4 Feb 2021

New study to examine stress, cancer risk and reproductive toxicity in women firefighters

Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are undertaking a study to better understand the potential enviromental and occupational health risks specific to women in the fire service.

4 Feb 2021

New initiative may improve patient outcomes by expanding EMS access to lifesaving care

Advanced telehealth technology is being used to improve patient care in the field by connecting rural emergency medical services (EMS) responders to Tucson emergency medicine physicians in a joint project involving the University of Arizona Health Sciences and Banner - University Medical Center Tucson.

4 Feb 2021

Public Health News and Research

As demand for mental health care spikes, budget ax set to strike

FDA schedules meeting to discuss EUA request for Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine

FDA continues to support the development of medical products to tackle new virus variants

Study: Black people are less likely to live near hospitals that administer COVID-19 vaccines

UCI Institute for Future Health to address movement toward personalized healthcare model

CHiPS program reduces unwanted sexual contact among U.S. Air Force cadets

Study: Social distancing also reduces the chances of contracting COVID-19

GSA experts propose strategies to address dementia-related psychosis

Study: Only 14% of the Bernese population developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Study shows psychological impact of perceived COVID-19 health threat among Black Americans

Experimental vaccine diminishes fatal respiratory effects of synthetic opioids

Race may play an important role in children's food allergies

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Covid and kids

New study to examine stress, cancer risk and reproductive toxicity in women firefighters

New initiative may improve patient outcomes by expanding EMS access to lifesaving care

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