Browsing: public health
The North Carolina State Senate has voted along party lines this week to ban wearing masks in public. Seventy years…
The US Federal Government Plans To Reclassify Marijuana From A Schedule I To Schedule III Drug. Here Are The Concerns
The DEA is planning to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance. The shift, which…
In the United States, the leading preventable cause of death is tobacco and second is poor diet and physical inactivity.…
Just when you stopped regularly hearing about COVID-19 in the news, another infectious disease began to dominate headlines this spring:…
For a while, Covid-19 turned all journalists into health journalists. Equally, it pushed scientists into science communication. Today, even as…
AMR: Antimicrobial resistance to lower global life expectancy by 1.8 years, report projects
As one public health threat takes a bow, another takes center stage. Less than a year after the end of…
You may have heard people tell you that there’s an art to healthy living. Well, the Arts For EveryBody campaign…
WHO’s new AI-powered chatbot SARAH is available 24/7 and in eight languages – but it’s blundering some answers
The World Health Organization is wading into the world of AI to provide basic health information through a human-like avatar.…
Alcohol-related liver disease: Hospitalizations increased among middle-aged women during COVID-19 pandemic
Alcohol-related health complications soared among middle-aged women during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study…
After surging at the end of last year, measles outbreaks across Europe and Central Asia intensified in the first quarter…