Public Health in the News (1/14/18 – 1/20/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Study finds that women using oral contraceptives had lower risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer, and that the risks were lower [...]
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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 (10/8/17 – 10/14/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global The plague outbreak in Madagascar has spread to the Seychelles nearby, with one confirmed case. Clinical trial by Chinese [...]
Public Health in the News (9/24/17 – 9/30/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global Chinese researchers find that high blood pressure during pregnancy increases the risk of childhood obesity. Scottish study finds [...]
Public Health in the News (8/27/17 – 9/2/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor National New study suggests that an anti-inflammatory drug may lower the risk of having a heart attack. The FDA has approved the first [...]
Public Health in the News (8/20/17 – 8/26/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global Brazil may soon be facing another public health problem, Oropouche fever spread by insects. Longitudinal Swedish study suggests [...]
Public Health in the News (6/11/17 – 6/24/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global New study finds that over 10 percent of the world’s population is obese and that excess weight contributed to 4 million [...]
Public Health in the News (5/7/17 – 5/13/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization [...]
