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- CDC estimates that there have been at least 7,500,000 illnesses, 81,000 hospitalizations, and 3,100 deaths from flu so far this season. CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older who has not yet been vaccinated this season get an annual influenza (flu) vaccine. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
- Flu Cases Skyrocket in New York City, Earlier Than Expected - The New York Times share.google/CJ5K39taTm2J... The dominant strain of the flu virus that is circulating this season, known as H3N2, has acquired mutations that could help it evade the body’s disease-fighting system.
- Some - but not all - US government services are coming to a temporary halt because of the government shutdown. Several agencies like CDC and NIH are likely to furlough many workers, affecting ongoing research and experiments already in progress. share.google/xW7zzu8NRHi6...
- The UN political declaration "Equity and Integration: Transforming Lives and Livelihoods through leadership and action on noncommunicable diseases and the promotion of mental health and well-being”. will be considered at the 80th session of the General Assembly for final approval in Oct 2025.
- In a multicenter emergency department (ED) survey of vaccine knowledge, self-reported vaccination status, and willingness to receive vaccines if offered in an ED, 49.4% of non–critically ill adult participants had not heard of at least one CDC-recommended vaccine, and 85.9% had missed one or more.
- How to Do a Perfect Plank - The New York Times share.google/rgZjnqQdgmSs...
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- Canada’s public health agency has recorded about 4,200 measles cases this year, more than three times as many as the 1,300 cases recorded in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...
- In 2023, an estimated 8.4 million adolescents aged 12-17 years, or 32.7% of the US adolescent population, had prediabetes. gis.cdc.gov/grasp/diabet...
- Reposted by Health Promotion@jonathanstea.bsky.social Please listen to your healthcare professionals, and try to ignore the misinformation online.
- Reposted by Health PromotionThe National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
- A new report by Oklahoma’s Division of Government Efficiency lays out several major policy shifts for the state. Ideas include eliminating $157 million of federal health care support, much to the consternation of policy experts and some Republicans. www.kosu.org/politics/202...
- Reposted by Health Promotion99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence
- Pedestrian and overall road traffic deaths remain higher in the United States than in other high-income countries. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
- During 2017–2023, the approximate 6.8 million-person decrease in the number of adults who currently exclusively smoke cigarettes was offset by an approximate 7.2 million-person increase in the number who currently exclusively use e-cigarettes. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
- The MMR vaccine is crucial to prevent the spread of measles. www.foxnews.com/opinion/robe... On Feb. 26, 2025, Texas health officials announced the death of a child in a measles outbreak – the first measles death in the United States since 2015. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Observed declines in cervical precancers are consistent with HPV vaccination impact and support Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations to vaccinate children against HPV at age 11–12 years with catch-up through age 26 years. CDC MMWR Report / February 27, 2025 / 74(6);96–101
- Reposted by Health PromotionBREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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- The state of Oklahoma is violating federal law by unnecessarily committing people with mental illness and drug abuse disorders to psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. Justice Department concluded in a report released on Friday. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Bird flu virus shows mutations in first severe human case in US, CDC says. No transmission from the patient in Louisiana to other persons has been identified. The risk to the general public from the outbreak has not changed and remains low. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Health PromotionGeorgia, currently the only state with #Medicaid work requirements, is proving that work requirements for Medicaid increase state administrative costs and create barriers preventing people from accessing the health care they need. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
- Reposted by Health PromotionMany people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!
- Reposted by Health PromotionThe latest edition of our monthly newsletter, eDPH, is now available to read and download from bit.ly/adpheDPH
