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Study Reveals How Long COVID-19 Remains Infectious on Cardboard, Metal and Plastic

Mar. 20, 2020 — The virus that causes COVID-19 remains for several hours to days on surfaces and in aerosols, a new scientific study has found. The study suggests ... read more

Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer

Jan. 8, 2020 — The cancer death rate declined by 29 percent from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2 percent drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in ... read more

Dramatic Health Benefits Following Air Pollution Reduction

Dec. 6, 2019 — Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to new ... read more

BPA Levels in Humans Dramatically Underestimated, Study Finds

Dec. 5, 2019 — Researchers have developed a more accurate method of measuring bisphenol A (BPA) levels in humans and found that exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical is far higher than previously assumed. ... read more
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Individual Response to COVID-19 'as Important' as Government Action

Mar. 6, 2020 — How individuals respond to government advice on preventing the spread of COVID-19 will be at least as important, if not more important, than government action, according to a recent ... read more

Public Health Leaders Call for Coordinated Communication Response to COVID-19

Mar. 5, 2020 — Public health leaders have called for informed and active public policy leadership to employ strategically coordinated health communication and outreach on COVID-19 and other emerging global health ... read more

The World Faces an Air Pollution 'Pandemic'

Mar. 2, 2020 — Air pollution is responsible for shortening people's lives worldwide on a scale far greater than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and insect-born diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS ... read more

Surgeons Cut Opioid Prescriptions by 64 Percent Using a New Multipronged Program

Mar. 2, 2020 — Surgeons in a large health-care system in central Texas implemented a pain management program that reduced longer-term opioid prescriptions by ... read more

Role Culture Plays in Feeling Sick

Mar. 2, 2020 — Scientists think that a person's values may shape views on ''socially appropriate sickness.'' This has implications for how individuals may take more action in dealing with ... read more

COVID-19 a Reminder of the Challenge of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Feb. 28, 2020 — The emergence and rapid increase in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, pose complex challenges to the global public health, research ... read more

Lessons Learned from Addressing Myths About Zika and Yellow Fever Outbreaks in Brazil

Feb. 27, 2020 — When disease epidemics and outbreaks occur, conspiracy theories often emerge that compete with the information provided by public health officials. A new study finds that information used to counter ... read more

One Year Into 'Soda Tax,' Researchers Find Law Did Not Affect Sugary-Beverage Consumption

Feb. 27, 2020 — One year into Philadelphia's 1.5-cents-per-ounce 'soda tax,' new findings show that the law had minimal to no influence on what Philadelphians are ... read more

Tone Down Your Risk of Skin Cancer

Feb. 26, 2020 — Social media smarts could make you less susceptible to skin cancer as new research shows that media literacy skills can help change people's attitudes about what is believed to be the ... read more

Using Social Media to Understand the Vaccine Debate in China

Feb. 25, 2020 — Vaccine acceptance is a crucial public health issue, which has been exacerbated by the use of social media to spread content expressing vaccine hesitancy. Studies have shown that social media can ... read more

Social Determinant Screening Not Enough to Capture Patients at Risk of Utility Shut-Off

Feb. 24, 2020 — Researchers have found that only a fraction of patients at risk of having their utilities shut off were identified through social determinants of health (SDOH) screening. The research showed that ... read more

Want to Live Longer? Stay in School, Study Suggests

Feb. 20, 2020 — A multi-institution study has attempted to tease out the relative impact of two variables most often linked to life expectancy -- race and education -- by combing through data about 5,114 black and ... read more

Carrots Plus Sticks: Study Looks at What Works to Reduce Low-Value Care

Feb. 19, 2020 — The old story of a farmer trying to get a stubborn mule to pull a wagon by dangling a carrot in front of its nose, or hitting its rump with a stick, may not seem to have much to do with the practice ... read more

New Cholesterol-Lowering Guidelines Would Increase Cost of Treatment

Feb. 18, 2020 — The financial burden on health systems would drastically increase if new European expert guidelines for cholesterol-lowering treatment were implemented, according to a new simulation study. The ... read more

Vaccine Misinformation and Social Media

Feb. 17, 2020 — People who rely on social media for information were more likely to be misinformed about vaccines than those who rely on traditional media, according to a new study. The study, based on surveys of ... read more

Spread of Coronavirus Underestimated, Review Finds

Feb. 14, 2020 — The coronavirus probably has a stronger ability to spread than the World Health Organization has estimated so far, according to a review of previous studies of the coronavirus' ... read more

Effectiveness of Travel Bans -- Readily Used During Infectious Disease Outbreaks -- Mostly Unknown

Feb. 13, 2020 — While travel bans are frequently used to stop the spread of an emerging infectious disease, a new study of published research found that the effectiveness of travel bans is mostly ... read more

Tourists Pose Continued Risks for Disease Transmission to Endangered Mountain Gorillas

Feb. 13, 2020 — New research shows that humans place endangered mountain gorillas at risk of disease transmission during tourism ... read more

Half of US Deaths Related to Air Pollution Are Linked to out-of-State Emissions

Feb. 12, 2020 — More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, researchers ... read more

Combining Viral Genomics and Public Health Data Revealed New Details About Mumps Outbreaks

Feb. 11, 2020 — In 2016 and 2017, a surge of mumps cases at Boston-area universities prompted researchers to study mumps virus transmission using genomic data, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of ... read more
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