Public Health in the News (3/24/19 – 3/30/19)

Posted on April 1, 2019 by NPHR Blog in News // 0 Comments

By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief

Global

  • The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 1,000 cases and is now the second-deadliest outbreak in history.

National

  • The FDA proposed a new rule for breast cancer screenings that would require doctors to inform women with dense breasts about the potential inaccuracies of mammogram results.
  • Purdue Pharma and its owners have agreed to pay $270 million to the state of Oklahoma in a lawsuit regarding OxyContin.

Northwestern

  • Northwestern Medicine study shows that noninvasive imaging can predict risk of heart transplant rejection in place of biopsies.
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The is the blog of the Northwestern Public Health Review journal. The blog and journal are both student run and contain research articles, opinions, interviews and other content pertaining to public health.

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