We are exposed to air pollution daily. When we step outside, we inhale pollutants from particulate matter (such as smoke or dust), burning fossil fuels, wildfires and more. For Lung Cancer Awareness Month, medical professionals […]
Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Nov. 18–24, serves as a global call to action to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR)—a growing public health concern that occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites stop responding to the drugs designed […]
Removing the most dire warning from hormonal therapies to treat menopause is likely the right call, women’s health experts say, but exuberance for the treatments could be getting ahead of the evidence.This post was originally […]
In the United States, child firearm violence prevention focuses largely on school shootings, even though the majority of child gun injuries occur outside of schools.This post was originally published on this site
Vaccination rates are falling in many communities due to widespread misinformation and previously eliminated or controlled illnesses like measles are surging across the United States and Canada.This post was originally published on this site
Australia has made major progress in curbing drunk driving. Decades of random breath testing, enforcement and powerful social media campaigns have cut alcohol-related road deaths significantly.This post was originally published on this site
Nearly half of U.S. adults (47%) are worried they won’t be able to afford necessary health care in the coming year, the highest level of concern recorded since West Health and Gallup began tracking in […]
The updated version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), the global reference system in intensive care medicine used to assess the degree of organ dysfunction in critically ill patients, has recently been published in […]
Bright orange fingers may soon be less common for some snackers.This post was originally published on this site
Researchers led by investigators at Mass General Brigham have discovered that over the last 25 years, heat and cold-related deaths have caused more than 69,000 deaths in the U.S., disproportionately affecting certain populations. The findings […]
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