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Primary care providers urged to assist patients who engage in emotional eating

Written by | 9 Sep 2024

Primary care providers are well positioned to address emotional eating because of their long-term relationships with patients, noted Jana DeSimone Wozniak, PhD and Hsiang Huang, MD, MPH, of Harvard… read more.

Record number of drug overdoses in one year reported

Written by | 14 Aug 2024

Drug-involved overdose deaths increased by over 500 percent in 2022 according to a study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with trends attributed to synthetic opioids…. read more.

Public health measures that reduce dementia risk could save up to £4bn

Written by | 7 Aug 2024

Public health interventions that tackle dementia risk factors could yield as much as £4bn in savings in England by reducing dementia rates and helping people to live longer… read more.

Conflicting health advice from agencies drives confusion, study finds, but doctors remain most trusted

Written by | 28 Jul 2024

Distrust of health experts and credulity towards misinformation can kill. For example, during the Covid-19 crisis, high-profile health experts received death threats while misinformation went viral on social… read more.

Few U.S. adults use nicotine pouches, study finds

Written by | 13 Jul 2024

A new study found that the prevalence of nicotine pouch use was low in U.S. adults despite a 641% increase in sales of the products between 2019 and… read more.

Herpes infections take major economic toll globally, new research shows

Written by | 11 Jul 2024

Genital herpes infections and their related complications lead to billions of dollars in health care expenditures and productivity losses globally, according to the first ever global estimates of the… read more.

Price sensitivity to unhealthy foods

Written by | 14 Jun 2024

Consumer data shows people with obesity are more price-sensitive than others when it comes to buying unhealthy foods, suggesting a food tax could be an effective public health… read more.

One in 5 adults in Canada without access to primary care

Written by | 28 May 2024

More than 1 in 5 adults in Canada did not have access to primary care, with large regional gaps in access, found new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.231372…. read more.

The number of people experiencing poor health and early death caused by metabolism-related risk factors has increased by 50% since 2000

Written by | 21 May 2024

The latest findings from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021, published today in The Lancet, provide new insights into health challenges and the risk… read more.

Just ask: patients in the ER are willing to get a flu shot

Written by | 29 Mar 2024

Simply asking patients to get the flu vaccine, and combining it with helpful video and print messages, is enough to persuade many who visit emergency departments to roll… read more.

Does an early menopause transition cause women to leave the workforce sooner?

Written by | 17 Mar 2024

Since most women will continue working for years after entering menopause, the effect of menopause symptoms on their working ability is an important issue and the focus of… read more.

Who benefits from direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising?

Written by | 15 Mar 2024

A new study co-authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst economist reveals the value of government vaccine recommendations to drugmakers, as well as potential benefits of advertising pharmaceuticals directly to… read more.

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