Health
Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison
Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison.
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Addiction
Officials agree: Use settlement funds to curb youth addiction. But the 'how' gets hairy
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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Health
Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home
Alisha Alderson placed her folded clothes and everything she needed for the last month of her pregnancy in various suitcases. She never imagined she would have to leave the comfort of her home in rural eastern Oregon just ...
Sep 17, 2023
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Health informatics
Data study ranks trust in health authorities, media, experts and politicians during pandemic
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Political Science Honors student, Alexa Schluter, is the lead author of the paper "In the COVID-19 pandemic, who did we trust? An eight-country cross-sectional study" ...
Sep 5, 2023
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Medical economics
Accra's most vulnerable residents were failed during COVID, say researchers
Containment measures, such as the lockdowns introduced to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, had devastating consequences for vulnerable urban populations globally.
Aug 24, 2023
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Medical research
The NIH ices a research project. Is it self-censorship?
Many Americans don't understand a lot about their health. Whether due to people believing conspiracy theories or simply walking out of their doctor's offices without a good idea of what was said, communicating what scientists ...
Aug 17, 2023
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Health
Report: Food safety policy neglects informal markets in developing countries—three ways this can change
The food industry in many low- and middle-income countries is dominated by the informal sector. Numerous micro and small businesses, which are not legally registered and mostly compete on the basis of price, handle much of ...
Jul 24, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Religion shapes vaccine views—but how exactly? Analysis looks at ideas about God and beliefs about the Bible
Many scientists and public health officials were surprised that large swaths of the public were hesitant or outright hostile toward COVID-19 vaccines. "I never saw that coming," Francis Collins, a former director of the National ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Health
Hospital doctors in England to stage five-day strike
Hospital doctors in England on Friday announced the longest strike in the history of the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), in an ongoing row over pay.
Jun 23, 2023
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Days of sweltering heat, power cuts in northern India overwhelm hospitals as death toll climbs
A scorching heat wave in two of India's most populous states has overwhelmed hospitals, filled a morgue to capacity and disrupted power, forcing staff to use books to cool patients, as officials investigate a death toll that ...
Jun 19, 2023
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