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2019 ASTMH Annual Meeting to focus on Ebola, monkey malaria, and other infectious diseases

This year's meeting will kick off with keynotes from two public health heroes who have pioneered a home-based approach to fighting infant mortality in India that's now being adopted in 10 countries.

23 Sep 2019

Study finds increase in health gap between First Nation people and other Manitobans

The health gap between First Nation people and all other Manitobans is growing.

20 Sep 2019

Voices: How should California address the needs of its aging population?

Demographers, gerontologists and government officials are counting down to 2030.

18 Sep 2019

Avoid making important decisions on an empty stomach, research suggests

We all know that food shopping when hungry is a bad idea but new research from the University of Dundee suggests that people might want to avoid making any important decisions about the future on an empty stomach.

16 Sep 2019

Do 50 million people really lose health coverage each year because of their jobs?

The moderators kicked off the third Democratic debate with the topic of health care, teeing up another round of the ongoing “Medicare for All” debate.

13 Sep 2019

Economic hardship over consecutive years accelerates aging

Genetics, lifestyle and environment are all factors that somehow influence when and how we all age. But the financial situation is also important.

12 Sep 2019

Community healthcare intervention reduces child mortality and closes poverty gap in Ghana

Giving people access to nurses in their own communities is reducing the child mortality rate in Ghana, offsetting the health disadvantage amongst poor and uneducated mothers, according to a study in SSM - Population Health.

11 Sep 2019

Number of Americans without insurance rises in 2018

For the first time in a decade, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen — by about 2 million people in 2018 — according to the annual U.S. Census Bureau report released Tuesday.

10 Sep 2019

Japanese-Americans have twice the odds of diabetes

A new study found that Japanese-American adults who are not obese have a much higher prevalence of diabetes than non-obese non-Hispanic white Americans (8.0% vs. 4.5%). The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Victoria, University of Toronto, and University at Albany, SUNY.

10 Sep 2019

Teens growing up as minorities more likely to experience anxiety and depression

Puerto Rican teens growing up as minorities in the South Bronx are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than their peers growing up as a majority in Puerto Rico, even under similar conditions of poverty, says a new study in World Psychiatry.

10 Sep 2019

Paid family leave increases immunization rates in infants

Parents who take paid family leave after the birth of a newborn are more likely to have their child vaccinated on time compared to those who do not, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. The effect is stronger on families living below the poverty line.

9 Sep 2019

Suicide rates are increasing, especially among rural Americans

Suicide is becoming more common in America, an increase most pronounced in rural areas, new research has found.

7 Sep 2019

How political maneuvering derailed a red state’s path to Medicaid expansion

This was supposed to be the year Medicaid expansion finally happened in Kansas.

6 Sep 2019

Death rates from heart failure are higher in the poorest U.S. counties

People living in counties with high rates of poverty are more likely to die from heart failure compared to people living in more affluent areas, according to new research published in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association.

4 Sep 2019

'Junk food' diet can lead to blindness

An extreme case of "fussy" or "picky" eating caused a young patient's blindness, according to a new case report published today [2 Sep 2019] in Annals of Internal Medicine.

3 Sep 2019

Starving seniors: How America fails to feed its aging

Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure.

3 Sep 2019

Fast food may be a prime culprit in teenage depression

Why is depression such a growing problem among teenagers in America? One answer is the kind of food they eat, according to a new study by researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

30 Aug 2019

Children from disadvantaged neighborhoods more likely to experience obesity in adulthood

Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods are nearly one-third more likely to experience obesity as adults, according to new research from Cornell University.

27 Aug 2019

Many countries lack important legal child labor protections, UCLA study finds

Despite international commitments made by nearly all of the 193 United Nations member states, dozens of countries lack important legal protections against children doing work that could be harmful or interfere with their education, a study by the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has found.

23 Aug 2019

Public health officials unprepared for magnitude of heat waves and climate-related diseases

An epidemic of chronic kidney disease that has killed tens of thousands of agricultural workers worldwide, is just one of many ailments poised to strike as a result of climate change, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

23 Aug 2019