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A ‘super strain’ of gonorrhea circulating in the U.S. is so powerful that it can evade many antibiotics used to treat it, experts say

The case comes amid “a rising epidemic of sexually transmitted disease” in the U.S., a public health expert told Fortune.

Fortune

How scientists trained computers to forecast COVID-19 outbreaks weeks ahead

Imagine a time when your virus-blocking face covering is like an umbrella. Most days, it stays in your closet or is stowed somewhere in your car. But when a COVID-19 outbreak is in the forecast, you can put it to use.

Los Angeles Times

Ministers set to consider banning disposable vapes

Public Health Scotland is examining the impact of vaping, with an action plan due in the autumn

Insider UK

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‘Understaffed and underpaid’ nurses in America’s largest public health system rally after historic strikes

New York City’s public hospital nurses cannot legally strike in their fight for stronger wages and staffing levels. But frontline health workers warn an already-stressed system can’t afford to wait much longer

The Independent UK

Commentary: Here comes Mr. Jordan

As one of its first acts after taking control of the House of Representatives, Republicans chose not to attack inflation, public health needs, a drought that threatens farmland in the rural West, or even the immigration crisis at the southern border, but rather “approved a GOP resolution to create a…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Researchers say the legalization of marijuana comes at a hidden cost to our young people

The Biden administration recently declared that no one should be in jail for using or possessing marijuana and that individuals convicted of simple possession at the federal level shall be pardoned. This ruling is consistent with the decades of scientific studies that have established the need for serious reform of…

Chicago Tribune

Flavored cannabis marketing is criticized for targeting kids

As New York opens more legal outlets for recreational marijuana, some public health advocates want more scrutiny on how marijuana products are being marketed to teens and young adults

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City health official defends denial of Southeast Side metal shredder’s permit

A health department official says the city considered many issues, including air quality and health in the surrounding community, in nixing a scrap business along Calumet River.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Hybrid’ COVID immunity from vaccination and infection is superior to that from infection alone, new WHO-backed study finds

The study shows "the advantages of vaccination even after people have had COVID-19," the international public health organization says.

Fortune

The costly lesson from COVID: why elimination should be the default global strategy for future pandemics

Imagine it is 2030. Doctors in a regional hospital in country X note an expanding cluster of individuals with severe respiratory disease. Rapid whole-genome sequencing identifies the disease-causing agent as a novel coronavirus.

The Conversation

Spaniards spending record high on private health insurance

New data show that Spaniards spent a record high amount on private health insurance last year, amid growing discontent with the country’s once-prized public health system

The Independent UK

'A job I love, but I need to pay bills': Thousands of British nurses strike over healthcare crisis

Tens of thousands of nurses across England and Wales walked out Wednesday in a new protest over pay and patient safety, with no end in sight to a wave of strikes that has piled pressure on the overburdened public health system.

France 24

NIH missing top leadership at start of a divided Congress

WASHINGTON — The departure of two key public health leaders at the National Institutes of Health has created vacancies some worry could present a hurdle to NIH’s agenda in the new Congress.

Tribune News Service

Third child in Scotland dies after contracting Strep A

Public Health Scotland say there is an increase Strep A infections than in previous seasons.

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UK nurses stage new walkout as strike wave intensifies

Thousands of nurses in Britain have walked out in a new strike over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of industrial action that has piled pressure on the U.K.’s overburdened public health system

Axios

Looming pandemic deadline threatens access to some prescription drugs

Prescriptions for controlled substances would require an in-person visit.

Tribune News Service

Mayor Adams slams stigma against ‘the word vagina’ as NYC expands access to free abortion pills

NEW YORK — Abortion pills will soon be available free of charge at four public health clinics in the city, Mayor Adams announced Tuesday while lamenting what he described as a societal stigma against vaginas.

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John Colley obituary

Other lives: Professor of public health medicine who helped to reveal the dangers of childhood exposure to atmospheric pollution

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Andrew Bridgen’s Covid vaccine tweets could harm public health

Letter: We need a high booster uptake of Covid and flu vaccines, writes Dr Simon Williams; the fewer anti-vax messages the better

Tribune News Service

More homeless people died in King County in 2022 than ever recorded before

The 911 caller thought Trenton Harris had overdosed.

The Conversation

FAQ on COVID-19 subvariant XBB.1.5: What is it? Where is it prevalent? How does it differ from Omicron? Does it cause serious illness? How can I protect myself? Why is it nicknamed 'Kraken'?

Despite intensive public health efforts to grind the COVID-19 pandemic to a halt, the recent emergence of the highly transmissible, extensively drug-resistant and profoundly immune system-evading XBB.1.5 SARS-CoV-2 subvariant is putting the global community on edge.

Newsroom.co.nz

How Te Whatu Ora can succeed: Put patients first

Political opposites Ian Powell and Heather Roy take the temperature of the country’s unitary health body.

Belfast Live

Public Health Agency launches consultation on services for those bereaved by suicide

"Given the impact that suicide has on families and communities, the PHA recognises how important it is to regularly review services that are in place to provide support"

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: We know soot pollution is deadly. The EPA needs tougher standards to protect public health

The recent announcement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the federal government plans to strengthen the nation’s air quality standards for deadly fine particle pollution, or soot, is, to some degree, a sign of progress. The Trump administration, after all, ignored the science and refused to update these life-saving…

The Independent UK

Spanish health workers march against Madrid regional govt

Several thousand health workers have returned to the streets of Spain’s capital to protest what they claim is the dismantling of Madrid’s public health care system by its conservative regional government

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