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Urban Fires in Los Angeles: New Lessons, Old Risks, and Paths Forward - Healthy Buildings
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Urban Fires in Los Angeles: New Lessons, Old Risks, and Paths Forward - Healthy Buildings
The Los Angeles wildfires of early January 2025 marked a watershed moment for America’s urban disaster preparedness. In just a few days, wind-driven fires claimed 29 lives, destroyed more than 16,000 ...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Programa en Epidemiología para Gestores de Salud, Basado en Internet - Johns Hopkins - Bloomberg School of Public Health
Inscripciones: Abiertas hasta el 5 de Febrero de 2026.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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2025 World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response, UNAIDS
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November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Public Pools as Public Spaces: The Role of Swimming and Bathing in Cities
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Public Pools as Public Spaces: The Role of Swimming and Bathing in Cities
From ancient Rome to modern-day Paris, public pools have been a center for social life and community gatherings. Learn about their history and significance in urban environments.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”
Standard health tests may miss those at most risk
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There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”
Standard health tests may miss those at most risk
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November 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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WHO framework aims to tackle rising resistance to HIV, STI, and hepatitis treatments
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November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests | PNAS
Recent evidence suggests that the ecological footprints of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples in Amazonia persist in modern forests. Ecological impac...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis
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Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis
The global burden of sepsis increased in 2020 and 2021, reversing progress from 1990. Sepsis incidence and mortality increased in people aged 15 years and older, especially those aged 70 years and old...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Trends and cyclical patterns of dengue disease in Mexico: A 40-year time series analysis
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November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Guiding artificial intelligence in public health and medicine with epidemiology: A lifecycle framework for mitigating AI misalignment
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Guiding artificial intelligence in public health and medicine with epidemiology: A lifecycle framework for mitigating AI misalignment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds immense promise for public health, yet its potential is undermined by alignment failures where systems act contrary…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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One thousand SARS-CoV-2 antibody structures reveal convergent binding and near-universal immune escape
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One thousand SARS-CoV-2 antibody structures reveal convergent binding and near-universal immune escape
Understanding antibody recognition and adaptation to viral evolution is central to vaccine and therapeutic development. Over 1,100 SARS-CoV-2 antibody…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Where Americans Spend Most of Their Social Media Time Today
Pew Research’s latest snapshot of social habits shows that the old guard still holds the crowd. YouTube pulls in eighty four percent of adults who say they us…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The Evolution of Stateful AI
How new memory systems could change the way we spot public health risks, make decisions, and preserve knowledge
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The Evolution of Stateful AI
How new memory systems could change the way we spot public health risks, make decisions, and preserve knowledge
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November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Farm workers urged to get flu jab to prevent avian and human virus strains mixing
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November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg outbreak rises to five - www.lokmattimes.com
Death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg outbreak rises to five - Addis Ababa, Nov 24 The death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg virus disease outbreak has risen to five, the ... Get Latest News on Internationa...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman
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November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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A staggering water shortage in Iran has dozens of dams close to empty, residents of Tehran facing the possibility of running out of water within weeks
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Taps are running dry in Iran. Decades of bad decisions are to blame.
Iran’s water crisis is so dire the president has proposed evacuating the capital. Largely at fault are official policies that exhausted precious water resources.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Why screening for the deadliest cancer in the U.S. misses most cases
A new study reveals that current lung cancer screening guidelines may be missing most cases, prompting calls for changes to detect the disease earlier.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A novel aerosol induction-removal system for mitigating airborne disease transmission in shared indoor environments
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A novel aerosol induction-removal system for mitigating airborne disease transmission in shared indoor environments
Ensuring high indoor air quality is crucial for mitigating airborne disease transmission, particularly in shared environments. This study introduces a…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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This Evidence Fundamentally Shifts the Debate About the HPV Vaccine - Absolutely Maybe
We’ve had to wait a long time to get to this point. If cervical cancer develops after HPV infection, it will take…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Aging
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November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Flu, COVID-19, RSV vaccines 2025: What you need to know this season
Cuyahoga County saw 22 flu deaths last season, nearly double the previous year, as COVID-19 vaccination rates continue to decline across the country.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Artificial Intelligence in Preventive Medicine & Public Health Certification Course
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Artificial Intelligence in Preventive Medicine & Public Health Certification Course
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November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Advances in the management of gastric cancer | The BMJ
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November 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Chronic kidney disease: breaking the silence
The early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are usually asymptomatic, with kidney function progressively and irreversibly declining over months or years. The silent nature of CKD is perhaps one r...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM