We've got a lot of ways to go: Thoughts on World Toilet Day
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Norwegian study shows microplastics in wastewater are shielding pathogens from being destroyed by treatment
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Local US health departments struggle to track human cases of bird flu
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Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort
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New study shows that hurricanes lead to excess mortality long after the storm has passed
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In Canada, Brantford-area child dies from rabies after contact with a bat, health official says
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Jordan becomes the first country to eliminate leprosy
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How Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters put actual lives at risk
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Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek hopes his latest brainchild, the Neko Body Scan, will revolutionise healthcare
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Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today
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UK's NHS cannot embrace AI until its basic IT systems are up to scratch. Prof Sir Martin Landray: clinical IT functions are slow and ‘devastatingly user unfriendly’
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Trench warfare [in Russian invasion of Ukraine] incubates hardcore infections: overuse of antibiotics is a global public health emergency
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World Health Organization declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads
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Amid a growing awareness of youth mental health, twenty schools in Denmark have pushed back their start times following a two-year trial
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Cease-fire. The only way to prevent a polio epidemic among Gazan and Israeli babies.
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Reuters investigation: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
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US, European nations consider vaccinating workers exposed to bird flu
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Michigan farmworker diagnosed with bird flu, becoming 2nd US case tied to dairy cows
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The US maternal mortality crisis is a statistical illusion
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American contracts bird flu after exposure to virus spreading in cows
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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
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New York midwife fined for giving 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines
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Britain’s future is being compromised by the massive increase in long-term sickness among the working age population
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UK's NHS faces legal action over contract with data firm Palantir
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Finland used to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world – how the country halved it and saved countless lives
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Rickets, scurvy, measles and scabies are increasing in the UK alarming health experts
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
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Cameroon starts world-first malaria mass vaccine rollout
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A national evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland
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Australia makes world-first decision to ban engineered stone following surge in silicosis cases
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Traveling for abortion - the untold story
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Reports/surveys like The Trevor Project report for other populations?
Hey folks, I have been following The Trevor Project's survey for a few years now and their 2023 one is just presented in a fantastic, easy to read and understand way so I think it's a great...
Hey folks, I have been following The Trevor Project's survey for a few years now and their 2023 one is just presented in a fantastic, easy to read and understand way so I think it's a great resource and worth sharing
The Trevor Project 2023 Survey on Mental Health in LGBTQ young people
BUT, I'm also looking for similar reports focusing on other minoritized populations in particular, or (whether in part or in full) focusing on the age ranges covering college students. I'm struggling to find something nearly so comprehensive, but I'm also not sure I'm looking in the right way. The Steve Fund seems to be a great resource for mental health for students of color, for example, but doesn't have obviously available data like this
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reportedly said 'just let people die', COVID inquiry hears
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Denmark is to restrict the sale of alcohol to under-eighteens and increase the price of suckable nicotine sachets, as their growing popularity is worrying health authorities
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Scottish officials approve UK’s first drug consumption room intended for safer use of illegal drugs
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PEP in your step - the public health politics of Doxycycline STD prophylaxis for unprotected sexual activity
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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
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There's hope for the US opioid crisis — but politics stands in the way
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How to regulate AI? Bioethicist David Magnus on medicine’s critical moment
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Lead poisoning could be killing more people than HIV, malaria, and car accidents combined
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The impact of vaccines and behavior on US cumulative deaths from COVID-19
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Cardiovascular ER visits plunged after Pittsburgh coal plant shut, study finds
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In Mongolia, back to school, back to sickness?
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Norway's ongoing journey to optimize breastfeeding support – rates of breastfeeding in the WHO European Region are the lowest in the world
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The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives
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[preprint] Suicide after leaving the UK Armed Forces 1996-2018: a cohort study
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A political gap in excess deaths in the USA widened after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, study says
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Professor of medicine claims that curing America’s loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs
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The UK's NHS mental health review will fail to answer its darkest secret
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Five locally transmitted cases of Malaria in USA, first since early 2000s
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