State policies in eight different policy domains, including gun safety, labor and tobacco, are associated with U.S. working-age mortality, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Children living in urban centers have a much higher prevalence of food allergies than those living in rural areas, according to a new study, which is the first to map children's food allergies by geographical location in ...
Jun 7, 2012
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Entitlement to free health services will be curtailed by the Health and Social Care Bill currently before parliament, warn experts today.
Mar 8, 2012
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A new study reveals a connection between poverty and opioid-related hospitalization, emergency department visits and deaths in Canada. From 2000 to 2017, Canada's poorest residents were 3.8 times more likely to die of opioid-related ...
Jun 29, 2022
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A seven-year-old Hong Kong girl has tested negative for the H7N9 flu virus, officials said Friday, after she became the city's first suspected case of the disease that has killed six killed on mainland China.
Apr 5, 2013
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Efforts to halt an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made "significant progress", with the virus now contained to a far smaller and mainly rural area, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.
Oct 10, 2019
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With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks became a normal part of doing just about any activity outside the house.
Sep 8, 2021
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Access to high-quality health care differs for Black versus white Medicare Advantage enrollees, a reality that has been well documented. A 2022 study by LDI senior fellow Norma Coe, LDI executive director Rachel M. Werner, ...
Jan 5, 2023
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The geographic areas where Lyme disease is a bigger danger have grown dramatically, according to a new government study published Wednesday
Jul 16, 2015
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China's deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to a province in the country's south, the government said Friday, marking the second announcement in two days of a case in a new location.
Apr 26, 2013
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