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  "Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. But not everyone faces the same risk. Some of those most in danger are the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers. That's not news to many mobile home residents. But research and policy are only recently catching up to that reality." https://www.npr.org/2026/09/07/nx-s1-5644782/heat-deaths-manufactured-mobile-homes #PublicHealth #heat #weather #climate #environment #housing...

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  "Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, reported owning seven homes but said he earned no income from any. Yet all but one was listed for rent during the reporting periods, and some current residents and neighbors at those addresses confirmed that the properties were rented, the news organizations found. Receiving income and not reporting it is a violation of federal disclosure law, three ethics experts said." https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/04/texas-ken-paxton-personal-...

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  "Misinformation and distrust are among the challenges facing public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they confront the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. Even though the virus has faded from U.S. headlines, key organizations are still at work providing medical care and training to counter the spread of the disease." https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/ebola-response-organizations-central-africa-democratic-republic-congo/ #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #...

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  "It’s an unwinnable system made toxic to the core by generations of the world defining the ideal woman’s body as that of a child, of hating fatness so much that self-harm is preferable to largeness, and of turning it all into a for-profit spectacle." https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/why-we-can-not-talk-about-ariana-grande/ #PublicHealth #obesity #overweight #underweight #fat #glp1 #diets #EatingDisorders

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  "As his confirmation to lead the Justice Department hung by a thread last week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders on a private call that he was preparing to take action to roll back abortion access nationwide." As if the Ghislaine Maxwell / Jeffrey Epstein of it all wasn't enough, here are more reasons not to confirm Todd Blanche. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/03/blanche-pledged-abortion-pill-crackdown-private-call-01023304 #healthcare #ReproHealth...

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  "There are 40 organizations working with Granite State P.A.R.T.N.E.R.S. to help students who are on food assistance, re-entering the labor market or changing careers get through nursing school. Through those partnerships, the program tries to address barriers like transportation, language, and disabilities." https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-08-03/nursing-expansion-program-newhampshire-nurses #healthcare #nurses #nursing #education #NewHampshire

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  "Over the past two months, the United States has made financial commitments that hint at a limited return to global health and humanitarian assistance partnerships, after the abrupt severing of many of those relationships a year and a half ago." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/health/trump-health-aid-state-department.html #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #Gavi #immunizations #vaccines #UNICEF #food #nutrition #ebola #HIV #PEPFAR #USAID #USpol

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  "One of the hardest and most important conversations we will have as adult children is 'the talk' with parents about aging. Sitting down to discuss giving up the car, moving out of the family home, planning for medical care and how an estate is going to be handled is uncomfortable at best." 🎁🔗: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/how-to-start-the-talk-with-aging-parents-fbc3e9e8?st=58pRZo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #healthcare #aging #seniors #PersonalFinance #Li...

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  "In a letter dated July 28, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Angela Alsobrooks (Md.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Andy Kim (N.J.) wrote, 'We are seeking clarity on whether this settlement may have resulted in a significant financial award to one of your sons, raising fresh concerns about conflicts of interest you may possess' as HHS Secretary." https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/122404 #PublicHealth #HPV #vaccines #immunizations #ethic...

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  "The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice." https://kffhealthnews.org/news/ahrq-funding-grants-trump-healthcare-safety-research-agency-hobbled/ #healthcare #biomedical #science #research #grants #funding #PatientSafety #quality #AHRQ #USPSTF #HHS #USp...

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  "Many maternal healthcare providers don’t routinely address heat, or how to minimize its potential risks with their pregnant patients, according to providers, researchers and patients interviewed in Mississippi and across the country." https://19thnews.org/2026/07/mississippi-heat-impacts-moms-babies/ #healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #heat #climate #poverty #disparities #mississippi

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  "But amidst the flurry of legal activity, few have stopped to ask a fundamental question: Why are we spraying so much glyphosate in the first place? The answer, in many cases, is animal agriculture." https://sentientmedia.org/roundups-connection-to-meat/ #PublicHealth #food #nutrition #glyphosate #RoundUp #MAHA #agriculture #EPA #courts

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  "On the betting websites Kalshi and Polymarket, people can now wager on whether the Food and Drug Administration will decide this year to approve medicines for cancers of the lung, breast, pancreas and blood. Kalshi also plans to allow users to bet on whether drug trials will succeed." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/kalshi-polymarket-prediction-market-drugs.html #healthcare #FDA #drugs #biomedical #science #research #gambling

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  "But on Tuesday afternoon, as the heat index neared 110 degrees in the city, a number of those sites were closed. According to a recent announcement from the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORD), eight of the city’s 13 recreation centers — which double as cooling centers during the summer — are offline for 'post summer maintenance.'" https://veritenews.org/2026/07/28/many-of-citys-cooling-centers-closed-amid-dangerous-heat/ #PublicHealth #heat #climate #Coolin...

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  "Democratic attorneys general and the Justice Department are facing off for the first time in court Tuesday over the fine line between being sick and being 'medically frail,' a distinction that could cost Medicaid recipients their health benefits." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/trump-dems-court-battle-over-medicaid-work-requirements-01013114 #healthcare #medicaid #insurance #disabilities #work #HealthPolicy #courts

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  "A new study suggests that Black patients with acute COVID-19 infection are less likely to be diagnosed as having long COVID than White patients, despite no significant difference in long-COVID symptom burden between the two groups." https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/many-black-us-patients-long-covid-being-missed-analysis-reveals Original research (no paywall): https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00179 #healthcare #covid #LongCovid #disparities #HealthE...

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  "The plaintiff in Weiss v. The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. is a Christian Jew. In her exemption request, she cited Bible passages as well as Jewish law which, she said, required her to keep her body and blood uncontaminated and prohibited needle wounds 'except for direct curative benefit.'" https://www.hrdive.com/news/previous-vaccinations-shouldnt-bar-workers-religious-vaccine-exemption-re/826285/ #healthcare #covid #vaccines #immunizations #workers #labor...

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  "The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that 'peddle medical myths and promote so-called miracle cures.' 'Platforms like TikTok must do more to stop the rise of dangerous fake medical advice … otherwise, it is the public who could be paying the price with their health and perhaps even their lives,' she added." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/27/misleading-ai...

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  "Some doctors are pushing to organize the 10,000 attending physicians within the University of California system, setting in motion what could become the largest union of employed physicians, organizers say. Factors driving the organization effort include hiring freezes, increasing patient loads, long hours, and clinician burnout..." https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/workforce/122364 #heathcare #physicians #workers #labor #unions #organizing #california

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  “These experiments take decades to build and require sustained, cooperative international investment,” University of Chicago physics professor David W. Miller wrote in a public comment. “The experiments will continue, without American leadership. … The United States will not just fall behind. It will step aside.” https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-science-grants-russell-vought-omb via @ProPublica@newsie.social #science #biomedical #research #grants #funding #OMB #USpol

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  "A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that some of the nation’s biggest health systems turn over detailed, personally identifiable medical records of all patients who seek help at their emergency rooms." https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/cpsc-consumer-product-safety-commission-trump-er-injury-data-grab-neiss-konza/ #PublicHealth #CPSC #hospitals #EmergencyMed #EMR #EHR #privacy #infosec #data...

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  "Hundreds of millions of people a week turn to ChatGPT for health advice, and now the platform has a dedicated space for those users. This week, OpenAI rolled out Health in ChatGPT, where users can upload medical records such as lab results and medications, and connect Apple Health to allow the platform access to health and fitness data." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-health-medical-records-advice-expert-risks/ #healthcare #AI #technology #privacy #infosec #datasec

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  "Figuring out who’s offering the best deal on heart surgeries or routine physicals isn’t the most pressing issue for everyday Americans. That hasn’t stopped lawmakers on Capitol Hill from trying to turn that kind of price transparency into their marquee bipartisan health care goal this year." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/26/health-care-price-transparency-insurers-hospitals-01011835 #healthcare #hospitals #insurance #CostsOfCare #transparency #UScongress #USpol

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  "The appalling truth about cyclospora is that humans are its lone source. It’s only ever been found in human feces. So if it’s in our food or water, 'it doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a microbiologist to overthink this,' said Dr. Mark Moorman, who recently retired as director of the Office of Food Safety at the US Food and Drug Administration. 'Humans are the source.'" https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/health/cyclospora-outbreak-investigation #PublicHealth #cyclospor...

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  "Lawyers for Seyb and other plaintiffs in the Idaho case emphasize that Dobbs does not appear to be a barrier to advancing these constitutional claims. The question that the Supreme Court answered in 2022 was whether 'all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.' In focusing on elective abortion procedures, the court didn’t address all procedures for terminating a pregnancy." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/supreme-court-news-idaho-abo...

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  "A Texas appeals court on Thursday dismissed an injunction that forced a Houston-area midwife to close her clinics, ruling that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office relied solely on an anonymous email as evidence that she violated the state’s 2022 abortion ban." https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/23/texas-midwife-ken-paxton-appeals-court-ruling/ #healthcare #midwives #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortions #courts #texas

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  "More than 70 Texans have fallen ill during a multistate salmonella outbreak that led a poultry company to recall eggs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/egg-recall-salmonella-texans-22359455.php #PublicHealth #salmonella #outbreak #diarrhea #eggs #CDC #texas

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  "A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day’s Bible readings and carrying little more than her rosary and cellphone." https://apnews.com/article/nun-arrested-ice-texas-d4937d291570e9b151add91c36020dd4 #PublicHealth #immigration #ICE #detention #incarceration #DHS #texas

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  "It’s frustrating. How can I make people understand I have a very genuine concern for their child? And I know they share that concern, but maybe it’s not the same degree of concern, because they don’t understand the illness and how severe it can become." https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/utah-measles-outbreak-vaccines-doctors-pediatricians-speak-out/ #healthcare #PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #pediatricians #PrimaryCare #prevention #utah

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  "I understand that people have a right to medical privacy to deal with their issues, but we do not have the right to disappear from our jobs without explanation," she said in a television interview. "I don't think any American has ever experienced the ability to just leave your job for over a month with no explanation to your employer." https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/122327 #healthcare #UScongress #USpol #PaidLeave #labor