Public Health in the News (3/24/19 – 3/30/19)
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 [...]
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By Virginia Nowakowski, NPHR Editor One hundred years ago, you were most likely to die from pneumonia. That’s if tuberculosis or diarrhea didn’t finish you off, according [...]
Public Health in the News (6/3/18 – 6/9/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization announced an outbreak of Nipah virus in India, with 17 people having died from the disease [...]
Public Health in the News (5/13/18 – 5/19/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization announced that Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to Mbandaka, a densely populated city. The [...]
Public Health in the News (1/21/18 – 1/27/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor National Philadelphia officials announced that they plan to be the first U.S. city to set up drug safe injection sites, since the city [...]
Public Health in the News (12/31/17 – 1/6/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization has approved an effective and inexpensive typhoid vaccine for global use. National The American [...]
Public Health in the News (12/3/17 – 12/9/17)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Study in Denmark shows that all methods of hormonal birth control, including IUDs, are associated with a slightly elevated risk [...]
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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