Public Health in the News (6/2/19 – 6/8/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global Study finds that eating blueberries regularly reduces the risk of cardiovascular events. Mass antibiotic treatment [...]
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Phages: friends or foes? A newly discovered mechanism where bacteria use bacteriophages to work against our immune system
By Jackson Campbell March 8th, 2019 marked the ninety year and six-month anniversary of Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin, the [...]
Public Health in the News (1/13/19 – 1/19/19)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global New study shows an association between poor sleep and increased risk of atherosclerosis throughout the body. National New [...]
Public Health in the News (5/6/18 – 5/12/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Central Australia is experiencing an outbreak of HTLV-1, an ancient disease related to HIV that can cause lymphoma and leukemia. [...]
Public Health in the News (4/22/18 – 4/28/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global British forestry officials have warned London residents of a species of caterpillars that can cause severe allergic reactions in [...]
Public Health in the News (4/1/18 – 4/7/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Study finds that higher doses of tuberculosis medications than that recommended by the World Health Organization may be necessary [...]
Public Health in the News (10/29/17 – 11/4/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization announced that the plague outbreak in Madagascar appears to be waning. Study in Hong Kong finds an [...]
Public Health in the News (10/1/17 – 10/7/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global Madagascar is suffering from a fast-spreading plague outbreak and the World Health Organization has sent 1.2 million doses of [...]
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