Vaccine Hesitancy Is Still Trending
Vaccine advocates are drowning out vaccine denouncers. Very few are engaging others and changing opinions as tweeters exist in separate bubbles.
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Updating Your Health Status
Questions about privacy and consent arise as researchers predict diagnoses by analyzing individuals’ Facebook status updates and electronic medical records.
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Cuts and Condoms
Black men are impacted by HIV more than any other group in the US, and programs like Barbershop Talk with Brothers could reduce HIV inequities nationwide.
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Family Non-Planning
Changes to Title X could impose an impossible choice for American women: accept limited and potentially misleading care or forgo family planning altogether.
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Professional Protection
How will the Supreme Court’s decision determine health insurance coverage and employment protections for LGBTQ+ Americans?
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Hectic Vectors
The incidence of insect-borne diseases, like Eastern Equine Encephalitis, continues to rise across the US. Blame it on climate change.
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Medicaid Meals
States with medicaid expansion show a drop in food insecurity among low-income populations as compared to non-expansion states.
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Killer Cosmetics
When the US poison control center receives a new report, oftentimes the person harmed is a child under two years old, and cosmetics are to blame.
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Tweet Dreams
Our smartphones give unprecedented access to information and connect us to our friends and family, but Americans find it hard to unplug.
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