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 [...]
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Public Health in the News (10/28/18 – 11/10/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief Global Merck & Co. Inc. is ending a long-term agreement to supply a life-saving rotavirus vaccine to children in West Africa. [...]
Public Health in the News (2/4/18 – 2/10/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The Olympic Winter Games are experiencing a norovirus outbreak, with 86 confirmed cases in South Korea. National New study [...]
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 [...]
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 – August 9, 2015
Global Christian Bréchot, President of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, writes in a Nature World View piece about lessons we can learn from Ebola responses and measures we [...]
Public Health in the News – January 18, 2015
Global Will we ever completely eradicate Ebola, or will we just subdue it? Vox analyzes the obstacles we’re still facing, while a new paper describes a model that [...]
Public Health in the News – June 15, 2014
Global The West Africa Commission on Drugs has just released a report that recommends decriminalizing drug use, and instead treating it as a public health issue. A large [...]
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