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Dangerous new COVID variant could overwhelm hospitals, weaken immunity
Two new studies have found that the new COVID variant BA.2.86 could lead to more severe diseases than other Omicron variants. Jennifer Horney, one of ...
Public health workers faced unprecedented threats during the pandemic
A new study led by Jennifer Horney, founder of the University of Delaware's Epidemiology program, shows that threats to public health workers nearly doubled after ...
Devastation beyond the storm: Hurricane Ian the latest disaster to cause increase in suicides
This week marks one year since Hurricane Ian decimated towns along Florida's Gulf Coast, erasing whole neighborhoods and claiming 160 lives. Recent research found that the ...
Potential health crisis in the wake of deadly storm and flooding in Derna, Libya
The number of fatalities and missing persons continue to mount after a storm caused massive flooding in the town of Derna, located in the northeast ...
Ga. Department of Public Health awards $10M to Georgia Southern to continue COVID-19 fight in Georgia’s confinement facilities
Georgia Southern University’s Institute for Health Logistics and Analytics (IHLA) and the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) have once again joined forces to ...
COVID-19 cases on the rise in the U.S., Japan and the Dominican Republic. Are we on the cusp of another phase of the pandemic?
With tourism, concerts and other forms of recreation experiencing blockbuster summers, it seems almost hard to believe that we were wearing masks, quarantining and dealing ...
Georgia Southern professor earns Fulbright US Scholar Award for 2023-2024
A noted Georgia Southern University public health professor has earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in All Disciplines to Latvia for the 2023-2024 ...
UCI expert: federal standards of chemicals in country's waterways
The Biden Administration announced today that they are prepared to finally set federal standards on the amount of PFAS chemicals in the country’s waterways. ...
Nutrition education should be ‘on the menu’ of all healthcare professionals’ education - new research
Research suggests nutrition education should be on the curriculum of all medical students as well as other healthcare professionals Association for Nutrition develops new curriculum ...
Expert Insight: President Biden’s COVID-19 ‘Rebound Positive’
UConn Health’s Dr. David Banach explains how a fully vaccinated and boosted person could test positive, negative, and positive again for COVID-19 within a 10...