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Mashup Score: 23Cigarette Butts: Toxic Threat and Tobacco Control Opportunity - 19 day(s) ago
About 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are improperly discarded each year, making them an unsightly reality of our daily lives. They represent a dangerous environmental threat and ubiquitous advertising value for tobacco brands—but also provide evidence that can inform tobacco research and control.
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Oral rehydration salts can prevent most deaths from child diarrhea, but a study in India shows that many providers think patients don’t want it.
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Chris Collins, Friends of the Global Fight’s president and CEO, argues in this GHN exclusive commentary that the State Department’s new Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy can prevent harmful programmatic silos in global health and should play a pivotal role in the future of the fight against AIDS, TB, and malaria—and global health more broadly.
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Mashup Score: 14The Myth about Herd Immunity - 4 month(s) ago
One common argument some parents make for declining vaccines for their children is that vaccines are not necessary—that their children are unlikely to get sick even if they are not vaccinated. Perversely, this argument relies in part on parents’ confidence that many other children are being vaccinated, creating “herd immunity” that makes it difficult for outbreaks to spread. In other words, if…
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Mashup Score: 11Global Health NOW - 4 month(s) ago
Essential News and Views in Global Health
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uuhhh… cigarette butts are the most littered object in the world. Swipe through to learn about what this means for the environment and policies that could help. #EarthDay2024 https://t.co/VTggeSLtak https://t.co/KAaGTviGPR