Westfield Health Bulletin: playing games with public health leads to predictable, preventable consequences

Public health updates should be highlighting progress that includes improving communicable disease rates, new research, ...
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'Preventable and reversible' officials say Upstate has experienced 23 preventable disease outbreaks in five years

As Spartanburg County continues to grapple with an ongoing measles outbreak, state officials are highlighting a trend of ...
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Research Shows That 40% of Cancers Are Entirely Preventable

Cancer, the emperor of all maladies, is tragic under most any circumstances, but it’s even worse when the condition could have been prevented. Scientists estimate that 40 percent of all cancers are ...
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From gene therapy breakthroughs to preventable disease outbreaks: The health trends that will shape 2026

Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in ...

Preventable Central Line Infections Linked To 40% Mortality In ICUs, Lancet Study Reports

A Lancet study across Indian ICUs finds preventable central line bloodstream infections causing high mortality, driven by ...
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Characterizing Potentially Preventable Cancer- and Chronic Disease–Related Emergency Department Use in the Year After Treatment Initiation: A Regional Study

Development of Imminent Mortality Predictor for Advanced Cancer (IMPAC), a Tool to Predict Short-Term Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Advanced Cancer Of 5,853 eligible patients, 27% had at ...
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Preventable injuries cause nearly 223,000 deaths a year. Here is how to avoid them

Falls are the most common cause of injury and hospital admission for trauma among older Americans. Holly Waller, senior director of Trauma, Burn and Inpatient Wound Services at UAB Hospital, says ...
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Map of preventable disease outbreaks shows the influence of anti-vaccination movements

The Council of Foreign Relations Global Health Program started tracking news reports about vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks late in 2008. It has now produced an interactive map that shows that ...