Mummies had cancer? A brief history of a long-lived disease
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 [...]
colon and rectal cancer
Public Health in the News (10/7/18 – 10/13/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global Large literature review finds that vitamin D supplements do not help prevent fractures, increase bone mineral density, or [...]
The Updated Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Two weeks ago today, the American Cancer Society released updated guidelines regarding colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal cancer [...]
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 – November 9, 2014
Global A dangerous, highly infectious strain of H5N8 was found on a German farm—the first known case in Europe. A new study reveals that in 2012, more than 70% of the [...]
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