Native Americans have shorter life spans: Better health care isn't the only answer
Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young.
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Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young.
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For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week's worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It's also how much she spent on her monthly internet bill before the federal Affordable Connectivity Program stepped in and ...
Apr 10, 2024
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Public health institutions are facing the challenge of a lifetime as social media breeds misinformation and disinformation about everything from COVID vaccines to climate change. Now, a creative program at Harvard T.H. Chan ...
Mar 18, 2024
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States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses.
Feb 27, 2024
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Malnutrition of Indian children rose dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI).
Feb 5, 2024
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To tackle America's gun problem, a growing number of states are using Medicaid dollars to pay for community-based programs intended to stop shootings. The idea is to boost resources for violence prevention programs, which ...
Jan 10, 2024
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Families that participated in the WIC program—also known as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children—were much less likely to use potentially unsafe infant feeding practices during the ...
Dec 7, 2023
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A RSV new therapy for infants, called nirsevimab, started shipping in September. By mid-October, demand for nirsevimab, sold under the brand name Beyfortus, had already outstripped supply, according to the pharmaceutical ...
Nov 13, 2023
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A new University of Alberta study exploring the risk factors that make farmers vulnerable to suicide could help them build better resilience.
Oct 24, 2023
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When three teenagers died of fentanyl overdoses last year in Larimer County, Colorado, it shocked the community and "flipped families upside down," said Tom Gonzales, the county's public health director.
Sep 29, 2023
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