Environmental Health, Public Health, and Occupational Health
November 30, 2021 - Public health and environmental health go hand-in-hand. For one, almost all environmental health topics affect populatio...
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Household Energy Conservation and Social Information Programming
November 29, 2021 - Energy companies use social information programming to help consumers conserve energy in their households. There are two...
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Cancer and Women Firefighters
November 28, 2021 - Women firefighters have been found to have an increased risk for several cancers. A 2020 study published in the American...
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Firefighters - Sudden Cardiac Death
November 27, 2021 - Sudden cardiac death is the number one cause of on-the-job deaths in firefighters. Fatal arrhythmia is the most common c...
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Mesothelioma, Asbestos, and Firefighters
November 27, 2021 - Mesothelioma is a rare and deadly type of cancer that primarily affects the lungs' pleura and has a very long latency. I...
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USPSTF Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines Being Updated
November 26, 2021 - USPSTF Cervical Cancer guidelines are being updated now. Currently the USPSTF recommends cervical cancer screening for i...
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USPSTF Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations - Short Summary
November 26, 2021 - The USPSTF recommends breast cancer screening for individuals with breast tissue aged 50-74 every two years (Grade B rec...
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Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial Short Summary
November 25, 2021 - Ovarian cancer is a deadly cancer. Most cases are diagnosed in late stages (stage III or IV) when long-term survival rem...
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Colorectal Screening
November 25, 2021 - Colorectal cancer is the third leading cancer killer of males and females in the United States. In August 2021, the U.S.
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Firefighters Exposure to PAHs and Benzene
November 24, 2021 - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PACs) are naturally occurring chemicals produced when hydrocarbons such as coal, gas,...
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Lung Cancer Screening
November 24, 2021 - Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer of males and females in the United States and is a significant public health is...
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PLCO Cancer Screening Trial - Prostate Cancer
November 23, 2021 - Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing is controversial due to its low specificity and high false positives. Furt...
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Firefighter Cancer Chemical and Toxicant Exposure
November 23, 2021 - Occupational histories and exposures are important aspects of what causes cancer. Occupationally related cancers general...
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea
November 23, 2021 - •Sleep apnea is where the upper airway becomes repeatedly obstructed during sleep caused by the episodic collapse of ana...
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Firefighter Cancer - Chemical and Toxicant Exposure
November 23, 2021 - Occupational histories and exposures are important aspects of what causes cancer. Occupationally related cancers general...
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Plastic from Medical Gloves and Face Masks are Polluting the Ocean
November 22, 2021 - The pandemic has caused a massive demand for personal protective equipment such as masks and single-use plastic medical...
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Energy Prices, the Environment, and Business
November 22, 2021 - •Global energy prices have been increasing at an alarming pace. In recent months, the United States has seen a 25% rise...
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Cancer Screening – Understanding Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment
November 21, 2021 - The fundamental way to determine the best plan and timing for imaging in combination with a cancer screening test is to...
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Origin of the Pandemic
November 21, 2021 - -A recent perspective article in Science summarizes what is known of early COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China, in December 2...
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UN Biodiversity Conference - Loss of Biodiversity
November 21, 2021 - Practices harmful to the environment such as overexploitation of wildlife, deforestation, and excessive farming have led...
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Cancer Screening Principles
November 20, 2021 - Cancer screening aims to detect cancer early before symptoms develop so that treatment (hopefully a cure) can be initiat...
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Cancer Screening Cost Benefit Discussion not included in Screening Recommendations
November 20, 2021 - A recent systematic survey published in BMJ Open evaluated how current cancer screening guidelines addressed the benefit...
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One Health - Deforestation in Africa and Malaria
November 19, 2021 - Environmental stability is a factor that helps prevent zoonotic spillover and the emergence of new infectious diseases....
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Coal Workers Black Lung Disease and Chest X-ray Financial Incentives
November 18, 2021 - Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung disease, is a pulmonary illness caused by inhaling coal dust over...
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Zoonotic Spillover - One Health and COVID-19
November 18, 2021 - Zoonotic spillover is when an infectious agent leaps over from an animal host species to humans, a not uncommon phenomen...
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Human-Animal-Environment Interface - One Health
November 18, 2021 - It's important to have integration among human sciences, animal sciences, and ecological sciences. This is a One Health...
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Firefighters and Miscarriages
November 17, 2021 - Around 8% of firefighters in the United States today are women. However, medical research regarding firefighters has pre...
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HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy
November 17, 2021 - Opioid-related drug overdose deaths have increased considerably during the pandemic. According to the Health and Human S...
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COVID-19 and Gardening
November 16, 2021 - Covid-19 hit and people began to garden. Rural and urban, there was a surge. Experienced gardeners returned to a hobby t...
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COVID-19 Pill and Global Health
November 16, 2021 - Paxlovid, the Pfizer COVID pill, is set to go before the FDA for emergency use authorization consideration. Paxlovid rep...
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Earthquake Preparation
November 16, 2021 - Earthquake Preparation
In case of an earthquake, would it be best to immediately run outside of a building or go to an...
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Ultrafine Particle Pollutants and Hypertension
November 15, 2021 - Hypertension is one of the most common medical problems affecting approximately 45% of adults in the United States. Evid...
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Global carbon emissions secondary to fossil fuels back up
November 14, 2021 - Global carbon emissions due to fossil fuels fell by around 5% in 2020 due to Covid-19. Preliminary data from the Global...
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Global Surface Temperatures
November 14, 2021 - Confirming the widely held belief that global temperatures are increasing faster than natural processes, a recent report...
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Wildland fire smoke and eczema
November 13, 2021 - Wildland fire smoke from the Camp Fire in Northern California, November 2018, was associated with an increased utilizati...
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Pollution and Heart Disease
November 13, 2021 - Pollution is a significant contributor to heart disease in the United States and abroad. However, pollution is often ove...
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Baby Bottles Silicone Rubber Micro Plastic Pollution
November 12, 2021 - Micro plastic pollution from the silicone rubber on infant bottle-feeding teats may pose health and environmental risks.
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Firefighter NFPA 1582
November 09, 2021 - Occupational health is a field of medicine that provides medical care for workers and advisement for the employer on the...
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Human and Ecosystem Risk Assessment - EPA
November 09, 2021 - The EPA defines risk as “the chance of harmful effects to human health or to ecological systems resulting from exposure...
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