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The costs of not investing in American public infrastructure, research, and education ~tech Article 5332 words, published Oct 17 2023 29 votes
Where’s the beef? Middle-aged, American men ate all of it ~food meat Article 583 words, published Sep 28 2023 15 votes
Marriage between cousins and extended family members may soon be banned in Norway ~life relationships family Article 376 words 26 votes
Scottish officials approve UK’s first drug consumption room intended for safer use of illegal drugs ~health Article 502 words, published Sep 27 2023 30 votes
PEP in your step - the public health politics of Doxycycline STD prophylaxis for unprotected sexual activity ~health Article 2577 words, published Sep 25 2023 14 votes
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Multiple rats in Atlanta test positive for dangerous parasite that can infect human brains - from Asia, has been found in Australia, Hawaii, Spain ~health Article 506 words 24 votes
There's hope for the US opioid crisis — but politics stands in the way ~health medicine Article 2582 words, published Jan 4 2021 8 votes
How to regulate AI? Bioethicist David Magnus on medicine’s critical moment. ~health healthcare medicine.bio Article 1195 words, published Sep 15 2023 4 votes
New Mexico Governor bans public carry of guns in Albuquerque ~news usa.nm.albuquerque politics Article 897 words, published Sep 8 2023 33 votes
Lead poisoning could be killing more people than HIV, malaria, and car accidents combined ~health Article 1179 words 18 votes
The impact of vaccines and behavior on US cumulative deaths from COVID-19 ~health medicine Link 9 votes
Cardiovascular ER visits plunged after Pittsburgh coal plant shut, study finds ~health Article 275 words 33 votes
Norway's ongoing journey to optimize breastfeeding support – rates of breastfeeding in the WHO European Region are the lowest in the world ~health Article 1075 words 10 votes
The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives ~health healthcare Article 3532 words, published Jul 31 2023 10 votes
[preprint] Suicide after leaving the UK Armed Forces 1996-2018: a cohort study ~health.mental Article 847 words, published Dec 13 2022 13 votes
A political gap in excess deaths in the USA widened after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, study says ~health medicine Article 813 words 36 votes
Expanding heat wave prompts alerts for 115 million people in the United States ~enviro Article 736 words 59 votes
Professor of medicine claims that curing America’s loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs ~health fitness Article 992 words, published Jul 14 2023 16 votes
The book To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick by Alden Wicker explores public health and fast fashion ~life.style Article 528 words 6 votes
The UK's NHS mental health review will fail to answer its darkest secret ~health.mental Article 142 words 12 votes
Iowa joins dozens of other US states in legalizing sales of raw milk ~food drinks Article 1774 words 57 votes
Anthony Fauci on Larry Kramer and loving difficult people ~lgbt activism history Article 897 words 12 votes
Five locally transmitted cases of Malaria in USA, first since early 2000s ~health Article 921 words 20 votes
Sweden is on course to become one of the world's first smoke-free countries, defined as less than 5% of the adult population smoking ~health Link 15 votes
Social media and youth mental health - The US Surgeon General’s Advisory ~tech social media PDF 5 votes
Why suicide rates are dropping around the world ~health.mental Article 1816 words, published May 12 2023 7 votes
White House launching $5 billion program to speed coronavirus vaccines ~health medicine Article 1388 words 3 votes
Finland is the European country with the highest proportion of under 25s dying from drugs ~health Article 403 words 6 votes
Covid backlash hobbles US public health and future pandemic response ~health Article 2189 words 8 votes
Isolation combined with an inhospitable environment can be a cause of stress on Greenland – but locals have found a way to deal with it: tuning into nature ~health.mental Article 1502 words 3 votes
To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland ~health medicine Article 8 votes
How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them ~health Article 3841 words 4 votes
Semaglutide weight loss injections to be made available directly from pharmacies in the UK ~health medicine healthcare Article 45 words 6 votes
US Food and Drug Administration moves to ease rules for blood donations from men who have sex with men ~lgbt Article 823 words 7 votes
Norway's golden generation of athletes proves the value of sport as a public good – commitment to making the “joy of sport” available to all is producing world-class talent ~sports Article 957 words 3 votes
Denmark's long Covid patients feel abandoned by pandemic response ~health healthcare Article 1025 words 5 votes
Denmark to allow significantly reduced mink production – limits on the number of people allowed to visit farms ~enviro Article 510 words 5 votes
People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised ~life Article 1355 words 5 votes
Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths gripping Britain is only tip of the iceberg ~health healthcare Article 395 words, published Aug 18 2022 6 votes