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Before attending New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers-New Brunswick alum Erin Go studied barriers and facilitators to HPV vaccine access in the Philippines Rutgers medical student Erin Go Ahead of starting medical school in July, Rutgers University-New Brunswick alum Erin Go pursued public health research close to her heart – and her family roots – in…
BBC Listen to Jim read this article There’s a saying that Robert F Kennedy Jr is very fond of. He used it on the day he was confirmed as US health secretary. “A healthy person has a thousand dreams, a sick person only has one,” he said as he stood in the Oval Office. “60%…
Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves. Credit: Doug Hardy / CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As the Trump administration continues to overhaul federal spending and disbursements to the states, Connecticut officials are stuck in a holding pattern, trying to make their dollars stretch further. The appropriations, human services and public health committees convened at the Legislative…
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Getty Images During hot weather, it can be easy to overheat, sometimes resulting in heat exhaustion or heatstroke. Heat exhaustion is not usually serious as long as you can cool yourself down – but heatstroke is a medical emergency which requires immediate treatment. Some groups, including older adults, young children…
Psychiatric residential treatment centers in North Carolina will test a new de-escalation method for dealing with youth in crisis, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced last week. Commonly known as PRTFs, these facilities offer inpatient treatment for children with complex behavioral health needs. When one of these patients gets angry or agitated,…
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has denied claims the government’s attempt to throw a protective ring around care homes in 2020, early in the Covid pandemic, was empty rhetoric. In an irritable exchange he urged the Covid Inquiry to focus on the substance of what the government was doing at the time. Mr Hancock said…
Public health professionals have long dreamed of mounting evidence-based social media campaigns that can cut through the misinformation and resonate with the people who need help. But media campaigns like these are often unscientific and stuck with using untested messages. There hasn’t been a systematic way to generate health messages that resonate with a community….
Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter, BBC News Abbie Abbie first began using ketamine when she was 16 Abbie was 16 years old when she started using ketamine. It was the first time she had felt in control. The negative thoughts that had swamped her mind since a young age began to dissipate. Twelve years…
What are the ingredients in lip balm? Some lip balm ingredients are manufactured, such as petroleum jelly. Others are natural, such as beeswax. There has been some debate over which is better for you. Dr Emma Craythorne, a consultant dermatologistcloseDermatologistA doctor who specialises in diseases and conditions of the skin. and surgeon, who uses petroleum…
Mayeni Jones BBC News, Johannesburg Reuters Gugu used to collect her antiretrovirals from a USAID-funded clinic in central Johannesburg. But when President Trump’s cuts to aid funding were announced earlier this year, she and thousands of other HIV-positive patients across South Africa suddenly faced an uncertain future. Gugu was lucky, the clinic where she got…
