Evidence-based public health: Covid control measures
As the coronavirus pandemic appears to be running out of steam it is important to review the lessons learned and move forward to ‘living with the virus’. IMI… read more.
As the coronavirus pandemic appears to be running out of steam it is important to review the lessons learned and move forward to ‘living with the virus’. IMI… read more.
Syringe services programs — sites where people who use drugs can access sterile syringes and dispose of injection equipment — often face political backlash. But a new study… read more.
New research from the University of Georgia found that fungal infections account for $6.7 billion in health care spending in 2018. And that’s just the cases that were… read more.
90% of respondents supported revocation of the vaccine mandate, in a public consultation exercise carried out in February 2022. The UK Government has today (March 1st) published its… read more.
Medication order errors are a significant, and preventable, public health problem. The widespread deployment of electronic health records and computerized order entry systems has largely reduced medication order… read more.
A range of work and home-related factors, such as not having a work locker or a place to launder work clothes, can impact the level of toxic metal… read more.
Communities in the North West of England experienced more than three times the excess years of life lost in the South West. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic… read more.
A young adult in the U.S. could add more than a decade to their life expectancy by changing their diet from a typical Western diet to an optimized… read more.
Obesity is known to cause cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension and diabetes but attributing these diseases to merely an overabundance of fat is a simplification. On a basic level,… read more.
A discovery that blocks the normal transition of semen from a thick gel to a liquid shows promise for development of a new form of non-hormonal, over-the-counter contraception…. read more.
NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, created using blockchain technology, first made a splash in the art world as a platform to buy and sell digital art backed by a… read more.
Research reveals cardiovascular risk of consuming small quantities of alcohol. Drinking less than the UK’s recommended limit of 14 units of alcohol per week still increases the risk… read more.
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