Forced from Home: One Year Later
By Sheila Burt In the fall of 2018, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) held the interactive exhibition “Forced from Home” in the Daley Plaza to [...]
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Public Health in the News (9/16/18 – 9/22/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Study in China suggests that gaining too much or too little weight during pregnancy may affect the child’s heart health. [...]
Public Health in the News (9/2/18 – 9/8/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Longitudinal study in Korea suggests that smoking is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other [...]
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 (3/11/18 – 3/24/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global Tuberculosis is making an aggressive comeback in Venezuela, a country with a broken health care system. South Sudan has [...]
Today is World Tuberculosis Day!
By Claire Vernon, PhD World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is celebrated each year on March 24.[1] Although it is a curable disease, TB was the world’s number one [...]
Public Health in the News: May 8, 2016
Global An international collaborative introduced a rapid zika paper test. International aid groups warn against US food aid shipment of peanuts: “it will deliver an [...]
Public Health in the News – May 3, 2015
Global Nature explores what is happening to scientists in Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria in the wake of the Arab Spring. It is getting harder for Chinese researchers to access [...]
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