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influenza

Paid Parental Leave and Infectious Disease Risk Among Infants

August 28, 2024

Research

Living in Greener Neighborhoods during Midlife May Slow Cognitive Decline

July 17, 2024

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mental and behavioral health

Living Near Oil and Gas Activity Linked to Poor Mental Health Among People Trying to Conceive

July 12, 2024

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mental and behavioral health

New Center Will Extend Behavioral Health Services to 126,000 Children in Massachusetts

July 12, 2024

hypertension

Lowering Systolic Blood Pressure below 120 mmHg May Reduce Dementia Risk among Black, Latino Populations

July 12, 2024

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Viewpoint

US Efforts to Collect LGBTQ+ Data among Medicaid Patients Are a ‘Foundational Step Towards Health Equity’

July 3, 2024

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health insurance

More than 1 in 10 Patients at FQHCs Experience Major Social Risk Factors

June 17, 2024

A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."

overdose prevention

One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024

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Health Law, Policy & Management

Excluding Partisanship Questions from Public Health Surveys ‘Limits Our Capacity for Advancing Population Health and Health Equity’

June 4, 2024

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health disparities

Majority of Youth Are Willing to Answer Questions About Their Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

May 31, 2024