Inside Health – Can we reverse rising drug deaths? – BBC Sounds

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….

TRUCKEE, Calif.— On Tuesday, the Nevada County Board of Supervisors adopted “California’s Joint Strategy for Sustainable Outdoor Recreation and Wildfire Resilience,” a nonbinding resolution intended to protect access to outdoor recreation while confronting the increasing threat of wildfires across the state. From left to right – NC District 3 Supervisor Lisa Swarthout, NC District 1…

UNC Health is approved for a more than $18 million expansion for one of its hospitals located in a fast-growing, aging Wake County town. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services approved the healthcare system’s request to develop 24 patient observation beds on the seventh floor of the Rex Holly Springs Hospital (RHSH),…

PHILADELPHIA — Christina Simms wouldn’t call herself an artist. The Howard University student was a budding scientist visiting to do research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her main objective was to do lab work. Yet as her summer internship entered its final weeks, she faced the daunting task of creating a piece of artwork…