Tag: public health
Global mental health issues woefully overlooked
The United Nations has made it a goal to improve maternal and child health, but mental health issues around the world remain woefully overlooked....
Air quality regulations could save US economy billions
With clean air regulations, the EPA estimates as early as 2016, the US would have 17,000 fewer deaths, 4,500 fewer cases of bronchitis, 120,000 fewer cases of asthma....
Bird watching for the blind
The Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Birding by Ear program helps the blind experience birding through their sense of hearing and smell....
More access to healthy foods for low-income Americans
A Boston program encourages low-income residents to eat healthier by giving them incentives to buy food at farmers markets....
Salmonella outbreak leads to largest meat recall in U.S. history.
Cargill recalls 36 million pounds of ground turkey after salmonella outbreak leaves one person dead and at least 76 ill....
Study finds home births increase by 20 percent
Women who chose home births say they want more control of their bodies and are rejecting the hospital and its technology. ...
Research finds healthy lifestyle reduces risk of Alzheimer's
Physical inactivity and smoking are two major risk factors associated with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States....
Haiti: a year and a half after the earthquake
UN Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer, talks about how non-profits can help Haiti recover from the 2010 earthquake. ...
AIDS fighting drugs could prevent HIV
New studies show that taking a daily pill designed to fight AIDS can actually prevent an uninfected person from contracting HIV....
Parents of morbidly obese children under fire
Parents of extremely obese children should lose custody say authors of an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association....
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