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A vaping campaign aimed at teachers, not teenagers
Version: 2CC0 1.0 — public domain
E-cigarettes have been the most used tobacco product among US youth since 2014. CDC's Empower Vape-Free Youth campaign does not address students at all — it gives middle and high school educators the material to have the conversation.
Mapping the hidden three-quarters of Fire Island National Seashore
Version: 2CC0 1.0 — public domain
Mapping the hidden three-quarters of Fire Island National Seashore
E. coli Infections: Symptoms, Who Is at Risk and Prevention
Version: 2CC0 1.0 — public domain
Most E. coli bacteria are harmless, but some types cause diarrhea — and the worst can lead to kidney failure. How people catch it, the symptoms, who is most at risk, and how to avoid it.
The Everglades vulnerability analysis—Integrating ecological models and addressing uncertainty
Version: 1CC0 1.0 — public domain
The Everglades vulnerability analysis (EVA) is a project led by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Park Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accomplish one of the science goals of Restoration Coordination & Verification (RECOVER), a multiagency group responsible for p
The RSV vaccine is not an annual one, and that catches people out
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If you have already had an RSV vaccine — including last year — you should not have another. It is a single dose, recommended for everyone 75 and over and for 50 to 74 year olds at increased risk, and late summer is the best time to get it.
A fifth of a dose, into the skin, and it worked
Version: 2CC0 1.0 — public domain
Facing a shortage in 2022, the FDA authorised giving JYNNEOS intradermally at a fifth of the dose. A case-control study across 12 jurisdictions found two doses were 86% effective — and the route made no meaningful difference.
What Sick Travelers and Migrants Brought Home: GeoSentinel, 2012–2021
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Over 2012–2021, U.S. GeoSentinel clinics saw 17,389 ill migrants and returning travelers. Migrants most often had vitamin D deficiency or latent TB; travelers had diarrhea, and most malaria struck people visiting family.
After Parkland: How a Nearby School's Students Felt Before and After the Shooting
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By chance, a Broward County high school was surveying students the morning of the 2018 Parkland shooting. Compared with classmates surveyed days later, fear and absences rose — and so did connectedness.
What Landsat sees in Montana
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What Landsat sees in Montana
Screen every adult once, because the treatment now cures it
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Hepatitis C has no vaccine and no post-exposure prophylaxis, and more than half of infections become chronic. What changed is treatment: eight to twelve weeks of tablets cures most people — which is why screening moved from a birth cohort to every adult.
What Ohio gets from being mapped by laser
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What Ohio gets from being mapped by laser
Repairing Glazed Terra Cotta at Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines
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Glazed architectural terra cotta is fired, molded clay with a durable colored glaze. A Save America's Treasures grant helped repair it at Hoyt Sherman Place, an 1877 mansion, art museum and theater in Des Moines.
Camp Chase: a prison camp's cemetery and the fight to mark its graves
Version: 3CC0 1.0 — public domain
Camp Chase in Columbus held 26,000 Confederate prisoners; 2,229 died. Its cemetery, under an arch inscribed "AMERICANS", is where the long campaign to mark Confederate graves was won.
U.S. COVID-19 Deaths in 2022: Down 47%, and Increasingly at Home or in Nursing Homes
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COVID-19 was linked to 244,986 U.S. deaths in 2022. The age-adjusted death rate fell 47% from 2021, but more deaths happened outside hospitals, and COVID was more often a contributing cause.
Drinking During Pregnancy in the U.S., 2015–2017: One in Nine, and a Third of Them Binge
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A CDC survey analysis found 11.5% of pregnant women aged 18–44 drank alcohol in the past 30 days and 3.9% binge drank. Unmarried women were more likely to do both.
Four respiratory infections that can trigger an asthma attack
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Flu, COVID-19, RSV and pneumococcal pneumonia all interact badly with asthma — each can bring on an attack, and each has a vaccine. The vaccines can be given at the same appointment, which turns four decisions into one.
Antibiotic stewardship moved up from the clinic to the health system
Version: 2CC0 1.0 — public domain
The CDC updated its 2016 outpatient antibiotic stewardship framework in 2026, and the change of emphasis is the news: the new guidance puts more weight on what a health system can do across its whole network, rather than leaving prescribing habits to individual clinics.
Atherosclerosis: Plaque in the Arteries
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Atherosclerosis is plaque building up inside the arteries. What the plaque is, the diseases it causes in different arteries, who is at higher risk, the symptoms, and how it is diagnosed, treated and prevented.
USGS's Climate Response Network: Wells That Show How Climate Moves Groundwater
Version: 2CC0 1.0 — public domain
USGS monitors groundwater levels in wells deliberately chosen away from pumping and irrigation, so they record the effects of droughts and climate alone. One New York well has records back to 1926.
Ludlow, 1914: the massacre that helped win the eight-hour day
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Ludlow, 1914: the massacre that helped win the eight-hour day
She had no symptoms, and the blood bank found it
Version: 2CC0 1.0 — public domain
A 53-year-old Missouri woman donated blood in 2017 and screened positive for the parasite that causes Chagas disease. She had never travelled anywhere it is endemic, never had a transfusion, and felt entirely well. It is probably the first case acquired in the state.
A hundred and one organisations agreeing to do the same few things
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The Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition has no regulatory power. Its whole method is getting dialysis providers, professional bodies, health departments, patient groups and networks to adopt the same Core Interventions — and to tell each other what happened.
The National Health Care Surveys: How CDC Measures American Health Care
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CDC's National Health Care Surveys collect nationally representative data straight from providers — doctors' offices, emergency departments, hospitals, health centers and long-term care — to track how care is delivered.