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How Artificial Light at Night May Fuel Obesity

It’s 10:30 p.m. A neighborhood streetlight floods a bedroom with a bluish glow. A teen scrolls on a phone. A night-shift nurse heads home under LED-lit streets that make the city look like midday. None of this feels unusual anymore. But a growing body of evidence suggests that this constant brightness—what researchers call artificial light […]

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Communication

Human Trafficking in the United States 2026: Challenges, Trends, and Public Health Solutions

Human trafficking in the United States 2026 continues to be one of the most pressing and complex public health and human rights challenges facing the nation today. Despite growing awareness, millions of individuals remain vulnerable to exploitation through forced labor, sex trafficking, and coercive practices. As technology advances and criminal networks become more sophisticated, trafficking […]

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New Study Shows Impact of Technology on Relationships
Technology

New Study Shows Impact of Technology on Relationships in the Digital Age

In today’s connected world, smartphones, social media platforms, and instant messaging apps have become essential parts of daily life. While these tools make communication faster and more convenient, questions remain about their long-term effects on emotional bonds. Recently, a new study has shown the impact of technology on relationships, revealing both positive and negative patterns […]

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How Obesity Causes Heart Disease
Health equity

How Obesity Causes Heart Disease: Understanding the Link and Protecting Your Heart

Obesity has become one of the most pressing public health challenges worldwide. As more people struggle with excess weight, health experts continue to emphasize the serious risks associated with this condition. One of the most concerning consequences is how obesity causes heart disease and increases the likelihood of life-threatening cardiovascular problems. While many people associate […]

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Epi

ICD-10 and Genetic Conditions Are on Pause

What’s Changing, Why It Matters, and What Public Health Should Do Next The way the U.S. classifies diseases is quietly undergoing a rethink — and if you work in public health, health policy, rare disease research, or health equity, this matters more than you might realize. In late 2025, the CDC’s National Center for Health […]

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Global

What Drives Racial Inequity in Brazil’s Care?

On a humid afternoon in São Paulo, a woman waits outside a local clinic with her son. She arrived early, hoping to be seen before the day’s appointments fill. But when the system goes down—again—she is turned away. She has no private insurance, and the nearest alternative facility is several bus rides away. She weighs […]

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Global

What Drives Teen Sexual Risk in Conservative Societies?

Late one evening in a crowded Jakarta neighborhood, a 16-year-old scrolls through her phone long after her parents think she is asleep. The lights are off, the house quiet. Between homework videos and harmless memes, a link appears—shared by a classmate—pulling her into content she has never seen before, not in school, not at home, […]

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Health equity

How High Salt Intake Shapes Obesity and Heart Risk After 50

Picture a 62-year-old patient in a primary care clinic. Her blood pressure is under control. Her BMI puts her in the “obese” category, but she’s active, social, and managing her diabetes well. Toward the end of the visit, her clinician gently reminds her to “cut back on salt”—a familiar refrain in public health messaging for […]

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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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