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Public Health News Round Up

Time is Running Out—Sustain Public Health Today! Receive trusted insights that empower you to make immediate community impacts. Our fully independent, self-funded work depends on your subscription. 🔥 Your action matters—share this blog right now to expand our critical network of changemakers! Here’s what we have next week. COVID variant NB.1.8.1 spreads rapidly across 22 […]

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Mental health

1 in 4 ‘Gambling-Traders’ Show Signs of Gambling Disorder

TL;DR: A new study reveals that some retail investors blur the lines between gambling and trading—especially younger men drawn to cryptocurrency and high-frequency trading. One in four in this “gambling-trader” group shows signs of gambling disorder. Picture this: A 32-year-old man opens a trading app on his phone. Before finishing his coffee, he’s bought and […]

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Public Health News Round Up, May 28, 2025

Act Now—Transform Public Health with Your Support! Subscribe free to This Week in Public Health for weekly, expert-curated insights and actionable updates. As a fully self-funded platform, your subscription and shares sustain our vital mission. ⚡ Time is critical! Share this blog now and empower others to join our independent movement! America’s Best Children’s Hospitals […]

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A conversation with Amanda Haboush-Deloye

How can we ensure that public health efforts truly reach the communities most in need, especially in times of crisis? Dr. Amanda Haboush-Deloye, Executive Director of the Nevada Institute for Children’s Research & Policy and Associate Professor at UNLV, has spent her career asking (and answering) this question. With a deep commitment to culturally competent […]

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Research

What Is Microsimulation and How Can It Help Public Health?

In the quest to shape healthier communities, public health professionals rely on more than intuition—they need powerful tools to predict outcomes, test policies, and understand complex systems. One such tool, often operating behind the scenes, is microsimulation modeling. Microsimulation might sound technical, but its core idea is simple and powerful: simulate the lives of individuals—one […]

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Mental health

What Happens When Recovery Homes Run Out of Funding?

Every day, more than 200 people in the U.S. die from an opioid overdose. Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD)—like methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone—save lives. But medication alone isn’t enough. People in recovery also need stable, supportive places to live. That’s where recovery homes come in. These homes, often run on shoestring budgets and sheer […]

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Public Health News Update, May 26, 2025

Happy Memorial Day to our U.S. colleagues. It’s kind of hard to be the right* amount of patriotic these days. Stay strong out there peeps. Be a Changemaker—Support Independent Public Health! Stay informed with the latest developments and actionable strategies. Your free subscription directly supports our self-funded mission to deliver crucial updates weekly. 💡 Every […]

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Commentary

Why Are American Kids Getting Sicker?

Edit: June 2, 2025. And now we learn that many of the citations in this report are fabricated. That is, they don’t exist. Of course. Why RFK is a Broken Clock. More than 40% of kids in the U.S. now have at least one chronic illness. That’s not a typo. According to the “Make Our […]

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Public Health News Roundup, May 23, 2025

MAHA blog coming later today. This science is coming next week. SERPENTINE How Medicaid cuts from Congress could affect every Cook County resident The proposed federal Medicaid cuts could leave Cook County’s public health system, which serves a large low-income and immigrant population, facing a significant budget shortfall, intensifying the pressure on local services and […]

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