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| 6/11/2021 | Podcast on Limiting Medical Misinformation During COVID-19 Pandemic | healtheconomics.com | Podcast on Limiting Medical Misinformation During COVID-19 Pandemic Podcast on Limiting Medical Misinformation During COVID-19 PandemicDirector and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships at YouTube/Google Dr. Garth Graham was invited to share his thoughts on reducing the spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. He noted that consumers should take care to select trustworthy news sources and that both payers and providers can ... |
| 6/10/2021 | At the root of widespread dental disease in the United States: the separation of dental and medical health | Wordpress.com | ... in the United States.Since then, multiple rebuffs have occurred. A notable incident played out on the floor of Congress in the 1960s when dental care was excluded from the initial implementation of the public health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid. One of the arguments for managing dental insurance separately from medical coverage has been that dental care exists as its own healthcare system. In addition, as Elizabeth A. Mertz ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Potential COVID-19 exposure list (June 9) | hotcountry1035.com | ... result, you do not need to keep self-isolating, however, you are asked to get retested 6-8 and 12-14 days after this exposure. If you get a positive result, you will be contacted by Public Health regarding next steps.· Halifax Transit Route 028 (Bayers Lake), which runs from Lacewood Terminal to Mumford Terminal, on June 6 between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. It is anticipated that anyone exposed to the ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Merkley, Lowenthal, Bonamici Lead Bicameral Effort to Push Biden Administration to Tackle Explosion of Plastic Pollution at G7 Summit | US Senate | ... G7 Summit Merkley, Lowenthal, Bonamici Lead Bicameral Effort to Push Biden Administration to Tackle Explosion of Plastic Pollution at G7 Summit Tackling plastic pollution is an opportunity for America to lead and to protect public health and crucial ecosystems Wednesday, June 9, 2021Washington, D.C. – With a G7 Summit just around the corner, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. Representatives Alan Lowenthal (D-CA-47) and ... |
| 6/10/2021 | COVID: UCSF Expert Urges Return To In-Person Learning Citing Children's Mental Health, Suicides – CBS San Francisco | CBS Local | Filed Under: Children , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Education , In-Person Learning , Mental health , SuicidesSAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — With two months to go before school restarts for the Fall semester, Dr. Monica Gandhi is urging lawmakers, public health officials, and school leaders to return to full in-person classes, citing mounting evidence that it harms children’s mental health and well-being.“I am sounding that alarm,” said Gandhi. “I ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Lawmakers Pressure Newsom to ‘Step Up’ on Racism as a Public Health Issue | Kaiser Health News | Lawmakers Pressure Newsom to ‘Step Up’ on Racism as a Public Health Issue Angela Hart Kaiser Health News Jun 10, 2021 Updated 49 min agoSACRAMENTO — After the killing last year of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers declared racism a public health crisis. The governors of Michigan and Nevada quickly followed, as have legislative bodies in Minnesota, Virginia ... |
| 6/10/2021 | No Laughing Matter: Nitrous Oxide May Help Patients With Depression | Kaiser Health News | ... 2021 UPDATED 9:27 AM full issue No Laughing Matter: Nitrous Oxide May Help Patients With DepressionA recent small-scale trial suggests low doses of laughing gas can help alleviate depression symptoms. In other public health news, U.S. deaths from heart disease and diabetes climbed during the pandemic and reports say 26 million non-covid vaccinations were skipped during 2020.Stat: A Low Dose Of Laughing Gas May Help Patients ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Scientists develop low-cost sensor that can detect COVID-19 in wastewater | Phys Org | ... to middle-income countries face a challenge in tracking COVID-19 in people because of limited access to the necessary facilities for mass testing. Looking for traces of the virus within wastewater would enable public health officials to get a better understanding of how prevalent the disease is in a larger area."Testing of wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid is already widely recognised as a ... |
| 6/10/2021 | People's odds of loneliness could fall by up to half if cities hit 30% green space targets | Phys Org | ... the HILDA Survey on 6,766 adults in cities across Australia who were not lonely in 2013. We assessed association between urban green space availability within 1.6km of home (a commonly used "walkable" distance in public health and urban planning) at the start and the cumulative incidence of loneliness reported four years later, which was about 12% overall. We took into account competing explanations for loneliness, such as differences in age ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Republicans rebel against a powerful anti-opioid tool | Politico | ... Photo 06/10/2021 04:30 AM EDT Link Copied Recent efforts to shutter needle exchanges in Republican-led areas could indicate renewed GOP backlash to the controversial programs aimed at preventing outbreaks of HIV and hepatitis, public health experts are increasingly warning. West Virginia, which has been ground zero for the deadly opioid epidemic, this spring approved sweeping new requirements that have already forced the planned closure of one needle exchange program ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Commutes are changing. What does that mean for commuter rail? | Politico | ... fled the five boroughs for more space at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now he, like so many others, is wrestling with what a return to work will look like as the public health crisis abates.Potter said a long trip to the office from his new abode in Salisbury, Conn. — a car drive and then a train ride — may be his new normal going forward ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Commutes are changing. What does that mean for commuter rail? | Politico | ... fled the five boroughs for more space at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now he, like so many others, is wrestling with what a return to work will look like as the public health crisis abates.Potter said a long trip to the office from his new abode in Salisbury, Conn. — a car drive and then a train ride — may be his new normal going forward ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Commutes are changing. What does that mean for commuter rail? | Politico | ... fled the five boroughs for more space at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now he, like so many others, is wrestling with what a return to work will look like as the public health crisis abates.Potter said a long trip to the office from his new abode in Salisbury, Conn. — a car drive and then a train ride — may be his new normal going forward ... |
| 6/10/2021 | U.S. to buy 500 million Pfizer vaccines to share with other countries | PBS | ... Air Force Mildenhall, the first stop of an eight-day, three-country foreign trip.National security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Wednesday that Biden was committed to sharing vaccines because it was in the public health and strategic interests of the U.S. As Biden embarks on his first foreign trip, he is aiming to show “that democracies are the countries that can best deliver solutions for people everywhere,” Sullivan ... |
| 6/10/2021 | 33,000 of Iowa's Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine doses are expiring | Des Moines Register | Iowans' demand for coronavirus shots has sagged to the point that the state may soon have to toss out 33,000 doses of vaccine. The Iowa Department of Public Health confirmed that the doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine will expire this month unless Iowans decide to accept them."We urge anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated to take advantage of this safe and effective one-dose vaccine," department spokeswoman Sarah Ekstrand ... |
| 6/10/2021 | ‚ÄúSpanish Flu‚Äù: When Infectious Disease Names Blur Origins and Stigmatize Those Infected. | Physicians Weekly | ÄúSpanish Flu‚Äù: When Infectious Disease Names Blur Origins and Stigmatize Those Infected.By Trevor Hoppe Jun 10, 2021Despite not originating in Spain, the 1918 influenza pandemic is commonly known as the ‚ÄúSpanish flu‚Äù-a name that reflects a tendency in public health history to associate new infectious diseases with foreign nationals and foreign countries. Intentional or not, an effect of this naming convention is to communicate a ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Reduction of pediatric emergency visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in a region with open preschools and schools. | Physicians Weekly | ... Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.Helena Hildenwall Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology – CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Department of Global Public Health , Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.Eric Herlenius Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.Olof Hertting Astrid Lindgren Children’s ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Fauci says attacks on him are 'attacks on science' | Washington Examiner | ... you're seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science," the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director told on Wednesday. "If you are trying to get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you're really attacking, not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science. And anybody that looks at what's going on clearly sees that.""A lot of what you’re seeing as ... |
| 6/10/2021 | Cuomo nominates Feinberg to chair MTA board, Lieber as MTA president | Washington Examiner | ... and take the role of interim president and CEO of Empire State Development.“Sarah, Janno and Pat are … proven leaders who kept the metropolitan region’s transportation network operating efficiently through the worst public health crisis in a generation,” Cuomo said in a news release.The Cuomo administration credited Lieber and Feinberg with shaping and pushing a $51.5 billion 2020-24 Capital Program to its approval.Lieber, a U.S ... |
| 6/10/2021 | What to expect from states with low vaccination rates in a summer COVID-19 case surge | Washington Examiner | Washington Examiner | ... year, I think it is perfectly reasonable for all of us to expect an uptick in cases in the South,” said Angela Clendenin, instructional assistant professor at the Texas A&M School of Public Health .In the summer of 2020, most states running from Virginia down to Florida and then west to Texas saw COVID-19 cases rise from June until late July or early August. Some, such as ... |