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New WHO report recommends interventions and policy options to tackle obesity in Europe

The new WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022, published on 3 May by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, reveals that overweight and obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions across the Region and are still escalating, with none of the 53 Member States of the Region currently on track to meet the WHO Global Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) target of halting the rise of obesity by 2025.

3 May 2022

What’s next if ‘Roe v. Wade’ falls? More than half of states expected to ban or restrict abortion

If the Supreme Court's conservative majority affirms the leaked decision overturning abortion rights in the U.S., the effects would be sweeping for 40 million women in more than two dozen states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the repudiation of the right to terminate a pregnancy.

3 May 2022

CDC reports U.S. case of human avian influenza A(H5) virus

A person has tested positive for avian influenza A(H5) virus (H5 bird flu) in the U.S., as reported by Colorado and confirmed by CDC.

3 May 2022

Transitional care practice helps reduce healthcare costs

A transitional care practice at Northwestern Memorial Hospital helped reduce healthcare costs compared to traditional discharge services, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

3 May 2022

FFC invites customers to rate and review its services

The Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC) produces daily forecasts that help emergency responders prepare for flooding.

3 May 2022

EIS Conference highlights CDC’s disease detectives’ outbreak investigations, innovative analyses on public health

CDC will hold its annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference May 2-5, 2022, via a virtual platform that is free and open to the public.

3 May 2022

States watching as Massachusetts takes aim at hospital building boom and costs

A Massachusetts health cost watchdog agency and a broad coalition including consumers, health systems, and insurers helped block the state's largest — and most expensive — hospital system in April from expanding into the Boston suburbs.

3 May 2022

Medicare surprise: Drug plan prices touted during open enrollment can rise within a month

Something strange happened between the time Linda Griffith signed up for a new Medicare prescription drug plan during last fall's enrollment period and when she tried to fill her first prescription in January.

3 May 2022

Abortion politics lead to power struggles over family planning grants

In a busy downtown coffee shop, a drawing of a ski lift with intrauterine devices for chairs draws the eyes of sleepy customers getting their morning underway with a caffeine jolt.

3 May 2022

Using Photovoice to shine light on health inequities among youths of color during the pandemic

Youth movements for social justice are growing across the U.S. and worldwide, tackling important issues from climate change, to racial justice, to education access and gun control.

3 May 2022

Moms with limited financial resources experienced tremendous stress during the pandemic, finds study

A recent study from North Carolina State University finds that mothers with limited financial resources often experienced tremendous stress during the pandemic, but that they also valued the opportunity to spend more quality time with their children.

3 May 2022

Researchers find an uptick in the use of school mental health services before the pandemic

Months after the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) declared a national emergency in child and mental health, Emory University researchers have found that use of school of mental health services went up among key adolescent groups in the year before COVID-19 struck compared to previous years in the U.S. The study offers critical insights about the importance of school mental health services in alleviating the growing youth mental health crisis.

3 May 2022

Mexico City Policy may be associated with higher maternal, child mortality and HIV incidence rates

Restricting US foreign aid for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide information on or access to abortion-related services in developing countries may have harmful effects on maternal and child mortality and HIV incidence rates on the same scale as an ongoing civil conflict.

2 May 2022

Online misinformation negatively impacts COVID-19 vaccination campaign, study shows

Online misinformation has negatively impacted the US COVID-19 vaccination campaign. This emerges from a study by Francesco Pierri, researcher at the Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with Indiana University as part of the H2020 Periscope project, published in Nature Scientific Reports.

2 May 2022

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New WHO report recommends interventions and policy options to tackle obesity in Europe

What’s next if ‘Roe v. Wade’ falls? More than half of states expected to ban or restrict abortion

CDC reports U.S. case of human avian influenza A(H5) virus

Transitional care practice helps reduce healthcare costs

FFC invites customers to rate and review its services

EIS Conference highlights CDC’s disease detectives’ outbreak investigations, innovative analyses on public health

States watching as Massachusetts takes aim at hospital building boom and costs

Medicare surprise: Drug plan prices touted during open enrollment can rise within a month

Abortion politics lead to power struggles over family planning grants

Using Photovoice to shine light on health inequities among youths of color during the pandemic

Moms with limited financial resources experienced tremendous stress during the pandemic, finds study

Researchers find an uptick in the use of school mental health services before the pandemic

Mexico City Policy may be associated with higher maternal, child mortality and HIV incidence rates

Online misinformation negatively impacts COVID-19 vaccination campaign, study shows

New study addresses uncertainties related to accurately describing sedation levels

California opens Medicaid to older unauthorized immigrants

Obesity progression may contribute to the economic burden of the disease, studies suggest

Weill Cornell Medicine honors students, staff for exemplary efforts to promote diversity and inclusion

Roswell Park's nursing teams share research at 47th Annual Congress of the Oncology Nursing Society

SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors built on rattlesnake venom scaffold

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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