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Why Sunscreen Ingredients Need More Safety Data
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E-Cigarette Maker Juul Must Stop Selling Its Products in the U.S.
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How Climate Change Affects Kids' Health
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Immunizing people against monkeypox likely won’t involve a mass campaign
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Vasectomies Are Trending After the Roe v. Wade Leak
For Trevor, a 35-year-old musician in Arizona, the decision to get a vasectomy was easy. He and his wife have long known that they didn’t want children, so the procedure has always been in the...
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Why There's Still Debate Over Sunscreen's Safety
Each year, as Memorial Day approaches, Holly Thaggard braces herself for the headlines. About how sunscreen may be damaging coral reefs. About the possible flammability of spray-on sunscreen. Headlines—as there were this year—about how sunscreen...
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Pandemic Habits May Fade—But the Wisdom You Gained Won’t
Since the pandemic began, the think-piece economy has churned out countless articles about how our world—work, medical care, cities, transit, social interactions—will be different when it finally ends. But will we be different after the...
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Even the Pandemic Hasn’t Made Public-Health Icon Paul Farmer Lose Hope
"Am I allowed to be a normal human and say, 'How are you?'" asks Dr. Paul Farmer as soon as our Zoom call connects. It's an apt introduction for a man who became a living...
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The History of Infographics During Public Health Crises
A wave of statistical enthusiasm, coupled with new technologies, paved the way for infographics in 19th-century Britain
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Want a Coronavirus Vaccine, Fast? Here's a Solution
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar sparked outrage last week when he said that the federal government could not guarantee that a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the coronavirus currently sweeping across the world, would...
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Experts Worry About Quarantined People on Japanese Cruise Ship
“There is now ample evidence that this (quarantine) is not preventing the spread of cases within the ship and it is also is posing a risk of spread within the ship,” says Tom Inglesby, an infectious diseases expert and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
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Juul Advertised Its Products on Kids' Websites, New Lawsuit Alleges
As beleaguered e-cigarette maker Juul Labs tries to distance itself from its teen-friendly image and convince the world its products are for adult smokers only, a new lawsuit in Massachusetts claims the company advertised on...
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Only 5% of People Tested for Coronavirus in the U.S. Were Found Positive
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is focusing much of its coronavirus containment effort on screening close contacts of those who may have been exposed to the disease in China—and is bracing...
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New Congressional documents reveal that e-cigarette maker Juul Labs pitched its products to at least eight Native American tribes, in a move tribal health advocates say is as disturbing as it is expected. "I always...
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Airlines in Europe, Asia and North America are cancelling flights to and from China as the new coronavirus has infected at least a few thousand people in China and dozens beyond its borders.
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The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Now a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Here's What That Means
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January 21, 2020
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Partial Vaping Ban Sparks Criticism
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Legal Age to Buy Tobacco Products Raised to 21
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The Federal Legal Age to Buy Tobacco Products Has Been Raised to 21. Here’s What That Could Do to the Vaping Industry
The federal legal age for purchasing tobacco products has been increased from 18 to 21 in a move the American Lung Association said will "reduce youth access to tobacco products and help save lives." That...
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The Vaping-Related Lung Disease Outbreak May Be Coming to an End
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced Friday with new confidence that vitamin E acetate seems to be largely to blame for the vaping-related lung illness outbreak that swept the country—at the same time...
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Dank Vapes seem to be associated with many cases of e-cigarette and vaping-product associated lung injury (EVALI) popping up across the country, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday. The CDC...
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CDC advises consumers, retailers and restaurants throw out any romaine lettuce that was grown from this region after 102 cases of E. coli have been reported in 23 states.
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He said he will raise the purchasing age for e-cigarettes
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The Mesa County Valley School District 51 plans to keep all 46 of its schools closed on Thursday and Friday.
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Fewer Americans Than Ever Are Smoking. Will Vaping Take Its Place?
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The company's valuation is plummeting
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Twenty years ago this fall, the Institute of Medicine—an U.S.-based independent, nongovernmental organization widely regarded as an authority at the intersection of medicine and society—released a report titled “To Err Is Human.” It announced that...
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Fifty-two people have died
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A New Study Provides a Clue About Why People Are Getting Sick and Dying From Vaping
One prominent theory may be wrong
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