Cups for Campus

04/27/2016

We're set up in the Farmer's Market! Come find our table and snag a stack of cups before they're all gone.

04/15/2016

"Starting on Sunday, more than 150 countries and territories will switch to a new oral polio vaccine. It will be the first worldwide vaccine change ever attempted.

Polio is on the edge of eradication. There were only 74 cases last year, all in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This year, there have been only nine, also in those two countries."

A new oral polio vaccine will be stocked in more than 150 countries and territories. Switching it out with the old one will be a logistical test.

04/07/2016

It's National Public Health Week!

Check out this website for more information on the role public health promotion and interventions play in our society.

Since 1995, when the first full week of April was declared National Public Health Week (NPHW), communities across the United States have observed NPHW as a time to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation.

04/04/2016

This infographic offers key facts about the Zika virus, tracks the increasing number of countries reporting local transmission over the past year, and breaks down how key U.S. government agencies are responding to Zika.

03/30/2016

IF YOU WORK IN AN OFFICE LISTEN UP

Replacing sitting time with just standing or moderate physical activity could counteract the effect.

03/28/2016

"The Jersey City Public Schools district discovered lead contamination in eight schools’ drinking fountains in 2006, and in more schools in 2008, 2010 and 2012. But not until 2013 did officials finally chart a comprehensive attack on lead, which by then had struck all but six schools."

The Flint, Mich., crisis has cast attention on the issue, but in schools from Jersey City, N.J., to Los Angeles, problems have dragged on for years.

03/25/2016

"An investigation by The New York Times has found that the N.F.L.’s concussion research was far more flawed than previously known."

An investigation by The New York Times raises questions about the league’s concussion research and its relationship with the to***co industry.

03/25/2016

"In the intervening weeks, researchers in labs the world over have shifted their focus to the Zika virus — and that work is already gleaning results. Meanwhile, the virus’s march through the Americas is adding real world epidemiological evidence to bolster our understanding of what humankind can expect from Zika.

Many mysteries remain. But here are some things we’ve learned."

Researchers in labs the world over have quickly shifted their focus to the Zika virus — and their work is already gleaning results.

03/18/2016

"In first-in-the-world clinical trials scheduled to launch later this spring, independent teams from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University will take kidneys from deceased carriers of the hep C virus, put them into patients with renal failure, and then give them a 12-week course of an antiviral therapy in the hopes that they will emerge infection-free."

Transplant surgeons are about to do something long considered taboo: put kidneys from donors with hepatitis C into recipients without the infection.

03/16/2016

*rolls eyes*

Susan Hedman says legal rules, limited powers tied federal regulators’ hands.