Voicing impatience with the reluctance of millions of Americans to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, on September 9 President Biden ordered that businesses with more than 100 employees require workers to get the shot ...
Sep 14, 2021
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According to a Johns Hopkins Medicine study published today in JAMA Pediatrics, exposure to police—even in instances in which the officers are providing assistance—may be detrimental to the health and well-being of Black ...
Sep 7, 2021
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A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholar who studies the legal and ethical implications of advanced biotechnologies outlines an unexplored tool to regulate the medically and ethically dubious ...
Aug 31, 2021
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In the United States, massive volumes of individual-level data, called "big data," are used for a variety of reasons, including marketing, intelligence gathering and political campaigns. Big data are also vital to public ...
Jul 13, 2021
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A specific police action, an arrest or a shooting, has an immediate and direct effect on the individuals involved, but how far and wide do the reverberations of that action spread through the community? What are the health ...
Jul 10, 2021
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When Altagracia Mejía learned she was going to be a mother, happiness flooded her heart.
Jul 7, 2021
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It had been a long four years since that July night when Marianne Sarcich first felt the lump in her right breast as she toweled off from a shower.
Jun 14, 2021
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The design, interpretation, and enforcement of county and municipal laws significantly affect local public health. But accessing those laws can be difficult.A study by Indiana University researchers found that unlike Indiana ...
Apr 22, 2021
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The pandemic's effect on Americans' mental health is illustrating the need for stronger enforcement of the federal health parity law, which mandates that employers that offer mental health coverage provide it on the same ...
Apr 16, 2021
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A new observational study from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health suggests smoke-free worksite laws may yield reductions, not only in conventional cigarette use, but in the use of electronic nicotine delivery ...
Apr 8, 2021
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