Independence has always been a driving force in Nancy Cheak-Zamora's life. Now an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Health Professions, she grew up undiagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disorder ...
Oct 14, 2020
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In a year marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic, US states and courts continued to enact and uphold increased restrictions on abortion and access to reproductive health care, according to updated data published today by ...
Oct 2, 2020
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(HealthDay)—In rural America, drinking has become particularly deadly for many, a new government report shows.
Oct 1, 2020
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A new report shows the strong impact Connecticut's Statewide Opioid Reporting Directive (SWORD) is having in its first year of tracking opioid overdoses.
Sep 23, 2020
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New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) shows that gun laws in neighboring states have an effect on gun death rates in adjoining states. In findings published in the American Journal of Preventive ...
Sep 14, 2020
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HIV prevention remains a public health priority in the United States. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug regimen recommended for individuals who have engaged in behaviors that place them at elevated risk for HIV. When ...
Sep 9, 2020
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An otolaryngologist has developed a simple mask design that significantly improves safety during aerosol-generating activities of the head and neck. .
Aug 21, 2020
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Repeated exposure to high-stress calls for service and ongoing exposure to stress without relief were two of the contributing factors that could lead law enforcement officers to become susceptible to adverse events while ...
Aug 18, 2020
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As the world rushes to identify safe and effective vaccines and therapeutics to counter the COVID-19 epidemic, attention is turning to the next step: manufacturing these products at enormous scale.
Aug 14, 2020
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New estimates from a web-based tool that tracks tobacco use created by the Yale School of Public Health show that the recent federal law raising the age of legal tobacco purchase to 21 could save over 100,000 lives over the ...
Aug 11, 2020
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