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Environment

Most Health Systems Track Climate Goals Wrong—This Fixes It

On a Monday morning, a hospital sustainability lead opens two dashboards. One shows patient safety metrics: infection rates, readmissions, and length of stay. The other shows climate commitments: net-zero targets, energy use, recycling rates. What’s missing is the bridge between them. Are sustainability efforts actually improving health? Are they protecting quality—or quietly undermining it? And […]

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Global

New Study Shows the Next 25 Years of Opiate Risk

At a community clinic in Ohio, a young clinician unlocks the naloxone cabinet before the first patient even arrives. It’s become as routine as checking email. She knows the calls will come—parents frantic about sons who relapsed, neighbors reporting overdoses, patients trying their fourth round of detox. The opioid epidemic is no longer a wave; […]

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Global

How Libya Is Building a Stronger One Health System

Picture a warm September morning in Tripoli. Around a table, veterinarians, epidemiologists, environmental officers, and ministry leaders lean over large sheets of paper covered in markers, sticky notes, and arrows. Some build “influence towers” out of Lego bricks to show which organizations hold power. Others debate how information really moves during a zoonotic outbreak. This […]

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AI

AI’s Hidden Challenge in Heart Health Communication

A cardiology nurse in Augusta, Georgia scrolls through her phone between patients. She’s looking for a clearer way to explain heart failure symptoms to a man with limited literacy and newly diagnosed hypertension. She types his question—“Why does my heart feel tired?”—into a popular AI chatbot. The response is fast, technically accurate… and almost impossible […]

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Global

Human Trafficking in Central America: Trends, Challenges, and Hope for Change

Human trafficking is a widespread crisis throughout Central America, capturing countless children, women, and men into modern slavery. From forced labor on farms to sexual exploitation in illegal brothels, trafficking in persons violates fundamental human rights and creates serious public health and social issues. As Central America faces poverty, violence, and large-scale migration, traffickers target […]

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Climate

Extreme Weather Is Overloading Health Systems

On a humid July afternoon, the emergency department in a mid-sized city is already strained. Ambulances arrive nonstop. Elderly residents struggle with heat exhaustion. A dialysis patient collapses after missing treatment because the clinic shut down during a storm. The charge nurse scans the waiting room and quietly wonders: how much more can this system […]

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Environment

Why 5G Matters for Bees, Birds, and Public Health

Just after sunrise, a small flock of migratory birds lifts from a patch of coastal marshland. They rise, circle, and attempt to orient—yet something is off. Their compass seems scrambled. Instead of settling into their usual migratory path, the birds loop again, drifting dangerously close to the new 5G small-cell transmitters mounted along a nearby […]

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Health tips

How Much Water We Really Need After Age 40

On a cool morning in Salzburg, a 52-year-old office worker arrives at a clinic for a routine health study visit. She hasn’t eaten for 10 hours, her urine sample is collected, and her blood is drawn. She thinks her hydration is “fine”—after all, she drinks tea, coffee, and eats fruits daily. But when her results […]

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News

Whiplash: January 15, 2026

At approximately 9 p.m. last night, SAMHSA funding was restored. I’m glad for that, but I’m also so freaking furious about the behavior, the short-sightedness, and the haphazard way public health is being handled by the federal government. I told some of my colleagues it feels like we’re dating a parody of a person with […]

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Uncategorized

Why Nerve Agents Still Pose a Critical Public Health Risk

A little after sunrise, a rural health clinic in South Asia opens its doors. Within minutes, three patients stumble in, eyes burning, breathing shallow, confused, terrified. The symptoms come fast, and the local nurse recognizes something unusual. Not smoke. Not food poisoning. Something more dangerous. Something chemical. Scenes like this remain rare, but when they […]

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Research

How Clinical Recommendations Are Really Built — And Why Public Health Should Care

Strong clinical recommendations are not just academic—they influence newborn screening policies, referral pathways, reimbursement decisions, and population-level outcomes. For public health settings, where resources are limited, and decisions affect entire communities, knowing how guidance is constructed helps: This is especially critical in fields with rare diseases, where randomized trials are scarce, and expert consensus often […]

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