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Mashup Score: 0OB-GYN Training and Practice in Dobbs’ Shadow | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 1 hour(s) ago
Abortion bans are changing where prospective doctors study and work—and stand to exacerbate health care shortages and disparities.
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Mashup Score: 18Public Health On Call: 758 - Homelessness and SCOTUS: What Happens When People Experiencing Homelessness Are Forced To Move? - 1 day(s) ago
Johnson v. Grants Pass, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, raises the question of whether homelessness can be criminalized. Ashley Meehan, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the public health dimensions of this issue. They discuss her research looking into what happens to people after encampment sweeps and what policies would benefit not only people experiencing homelessness but their communities and cities as well. Listen to our previous episode on this issue:
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Mashup Score: 6Did an Abortion Ban Cost a Young Texas Woman Her Life? - 4 day(s) ago
As many conservatives hail the fall of Roe for saving unborn lives, high-risk pregnancy becomes even more perilous.
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Mashup Score: 10
Dengue, or “break-bone fever”—a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that can cause serious fever, rash, muscle and joint pain and even problems with bleeding and shock—is surging around the world and popping up in new places like the U.S. Vaccine expert Anna Durbin returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about these trends and the general status of vaccines, treatments, and prevention. Learn more:
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Dengue fever, often called "break-bone fever," is expanding globally and affecting regions in the US. Join @JohnsHopkinsIH’s Anna Durbin on the @publichealthpod as she discusses the rise of this painful disease and the latest in vaccines and prevention. https://t.co/e4dJIWtalt https://t.co/a2bWSXdwM7
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Mashup Score: 9Public Health On Call: 756 - Electronic Cigarettes Part 2: How Serious are the Health Risks Associated with E-cigs? - 6 day(s) ago
More than a decade after electronic cigarettes became broadly available in the United States, their merits are still being debated. Do these products help people quit smoking? How serious are the health risks associated with these products? In a two-part series, we hear from two researchers in tobacco control about their views. In part two, Stan Glantz, the Truth Initiative Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control at the University of California San Francisco talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about his research into the harms of electronic cigarettes and the dangers of “dual use” of electronic cigarettes and traditional cigarettes. In an epilogue, Public Health On Call audio producer Matt Martin talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about his personal history of tobacco use – including his efforts to quit with electronic cigarettes. Read Glantz’s paper in New England Journal of Medicine Evidence: Listen to part one of the series here:
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E-cigs are unregulated by the @FDA, but have been marketed as a safer alternative to cigarettes, and as a way to help smokers quit. Are they really quitting aids or health risks? Two tobacco control researchers sharing their insights on @PublicHealthPod. https://t.co/lM9eivB9lI https://t.co/Qh5lPOf8NT
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Virologist Dr. Andy Pekosz and public health veterinary expert Dr. Meghan Davis return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about what we’ve learned so far from viral sequencing of H5N1, its presence in milk, what we know about infections in humans, the status of the overall response to a major pathogen of concern on the heels of COVID-19, and more. Read Dr. Davis’s recent New York Times essay on protecting the dairy workforce here:
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Mashup Score: 14
As counterfeit medications proliferate, researchers work to alert doctors and patients to the risks.
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Mashup Score: 14Public Health On Call: 755 - Electronic Cigarettes Part 1: Do E-cigs Help People Quit Smoking? - 8 day(s) ago
More than a decade after electronic cigarettes became broadly available in the United States, their merits are still being debated. Do these products help people quit smoking? How serious are the health risks associated with these products? In a two-part series, we hear from two researchers in tobacco control about their views. In part one, Dr. Nancy Rigotti, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. Read her editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine:
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Mashup Score: 16Public Health On Call: 754 - A Public Health Emergency: Syphilis Surges in the Great Plains Region - 11 day(s) ago
An alarming and dangerous syphilis surge across the Great Plains Region, an area spanning North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa, has prompted tribal officials to urge HHS Secretary to declare a public health emergency. Dr. Meghan Curry O’Connell, chief public health officer at the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board and a member of the Cherokee Nation, talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about the outbreak and why public health officials are struggling to respond. Learn more:
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Mashup Score: 11Opinion | If Bird Flu Spreads, These Workers Will See It First - 11 day(s) ago
We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.
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Abortion bans are changing where prospective doctors study and work—and stand to exacerbate health care shortages and disparities. https://t.co/E9hizAUZXl