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Nutrition

55% Higher Liver Disease Risk from Fast Food Diets

For millions of people, the answer to “What’s for dinner?” comes in a paper bag, passed through a drive-thru window. It’s quick, cheap, and tasty. But according to new research, that convenience may come with a serious cost to your liver. A sweeping meta-analysis, pooling data from over 169,000 people across nine studies, found that […]

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Policy

Public Health Infrastructure Today: CDC Purge, Vaccine Limits & What’s Next

The week’s shockwave: The White House fired newly installed CDC director Susan Monarez after less than a month on the job. Within hours, multiple senior CDC leaders resigned in protest, citing politicization and cut ( The Washington Post, Reuters) At the same time: FDA narrowed access to COVID-19 vaccines to older adults and people at […]

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Uncategorized

Why a 3x Smoking Risk Still Looks Like a Decline

Picture a chart: vaping among teens climbing sharply, while smoking drops. To the casual observer—or even to a policymaker under pressure—it might look like good news. Maybe vaping is helping young people quit cigarettes, or keeping them from starting at all. That’s the “displacement effect” story, and it’s a tempting one. But according to new […]

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Funding

New Study Reveals 3 Keys to Smarter Health Care Dashboards

What does a kidney transplant really cost—not just to the hospital, but to the patient living through it? For most clinicians, managers, and even patients, the answer has remained surprisingly murky. While health systems worldwide race to implement value-based health care (VBHC), an approach that defines value as outcomes relative to cost, one piece of […]

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Developmental disorders

Did Aluminum in Vaccines Harm Kids? The Largest Study Says No

The Annals of Medicine recently rejected a call to retract a Danish cohort study that did not find increased health risks among 1.2 million children exposed to aluminum in vaccines. The journal’s editor-in-chief explained that while the study has limitations (as every study does) its findings remain valid. And importantly, dismissing peer-reviewed evidence without reason […]

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News

Next Week in Public Health, August 22, 2025

Hello. That’s it. I don’t have much interesting commentary this week. I did learn a new word, though — presenteeism. Check out some of the latest research on presenteesism below. And what’s going on in the news How the pandemic shaped presenteeism trends between healthcare and non-healthcare workers using the Korean working conditions surveys (2010 […]

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Research

Can Everyday Wireless Signals Really Damage Your DNA?

I’ll be honest–> this one knocked my socks off. For decades, we’ve lived in an increasingly wireless world—mobile phones in our pockets, Wi-Fi in our homes, Bluetooth in our cars. These technologies make modern life hum, but could the same invisible waves connecting us be subtly damaging our DNA? A massive new scoping review of […]

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Climate

Global Chikungunya Virus Surge

Chikungunya virus cases have been rising markedly in various parts of the world. This mosquito-borne illness, which can cause debilitating joint pain, is showing alarming trends, particularly in Asia and Europe. In this blog post, we look at the factors driving this surge, its implications for global public health, and the strategies being devised to […]

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Global

The 1950s WHO Drug Plan That Supplied 70% of India’s Penicillin

In the late 1940s, just as the world emerged from war and penicillin was transforming medicine, the newly formed World Health Organization (WHO) tried something extraordinary. It wasn’t just about distributing medicine—it was about ensuring that every country could make life-saving drugs themselves, free from corporate secrecy and political roadblocks. This is the story of […]

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