After a decades-long decline—both in terms of financial investment and the overall size of the workforce—the COVID-19 pandemic prompted increased attention and funding for America's public health systems. This response ...
Jan 24, 2023
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The UK government is almost a decade behind achieving its target for England to be smokefree by 2030, a new report published by Cancer Research UK reveals.
Dec 29, 2022
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A new generation of effective weight loss drugs is now available in the U.S., but the drugs' high cost highlights a reality hurting the nation's economy and those who want to shed pounds: Obesity is expensive, and so are ...
Dec 21, 2022
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A new online tool to track global progress on tobacco control taps into the management principle that "what gets measured gets done."
Dec 15, 2022
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Smoking is an incredibly hard habit to break. Anne Levine of Baltimore can attest to that.
Oct 26, 2022
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New trial data shows that Pfizer's updated COVID booster shot is more powerful against Omicron subvariants than the original shot, the company announced Thursday.
Oct 14, 2022
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New research suggests at least 17 million people in the European Union may have experienced long COVID-19 symptoms during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, with women more likely than men to suffer from the ...
Sep 13, 2022
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Millions of people have died of coronavirus infection since 2020 because influential institutions took too long to recognize that it is primarily airborne, and a new University of Colorado Boulder-led historical analysis ...
Sep 2, 2022
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Access to paid sick leave is linked to a lower rate of mortality among US working age men and women, according to new research in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The study shows that laws requiring employers ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Pfizer's COVID-19 pill appears to provide little or no benefit for younger adults, while still reducing the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk seniors, according to a large study published Wednesday.
Aug 24, 2022
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