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Focused on the health and well-being of adolescents, a new report by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and Well Being Trust continues...
Oct 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Early identification and timely response to a healthcare outbreak is critical to minimizing the number of people impacted. Together,...
Oct 24, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Harm Reduction Coalition has released a report to highlight the Know Overdose campaign that will be coming to the streets of San...
Sep 30, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an updated version of the Food Defense Plan Builder (FDPB) to help companies meet...
Sep 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In the fall of 2018, the residents of the United Kingdom’s northern city of Grimsby could have been forgiven for choking on their...
Sep 16, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The CDC Vital Signs series addresses a single important public health topic each month. This month’s release presents findings on...
Aug 12, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection...
Aug 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Coalition for Safer Food Processing and Packaging, a national alliance of public health nonprofits, sampled and tested 123 plastic...
Jul 31, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Harm Reduction Coalition released a request for proposals for the Support Harm Reduction & Community Education component of the...
Jun 25, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Focused on the health and well-being of adolescents, a new report by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and Well Being Trust continues a series of Pain in the Nation reports that inform national policy to advance a comprehensive National Resilience Strategy. In addition to highlighting recent trends in adolescent substance use and suicide, Addressing a […]
Early identification and timely response to a healthcare outbreak is critical to minimizing the number of people impacted. Together, the Evelyn and Thomas McKnight Family Fund for Patient Safety and the CDC Foundation created the McKnight Heroes Prize to encourage and reward those who serve and protect patients from harm related to healthcare outbreaks. Candidates for […]
Harm Reduction Coalition has released a report to highlight the Know Overdose campaign that will be coming to the streets of San Francisco soon.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an updated version of the Food Defense Plan Builder (FDPB) to help companies meet the requirements of the Intentional Adulteration rule under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
In the fall of 2018, the residents of the United Kingdom’s northern city of Grimsby could have been forgiven for choking on their breakfast cereal when they saw in the news that their High Street (UK equivalent of a Main Street), was named by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), as the UK’s unhealthiest.
The CDC Vital Signs series addresses a single important public health topic each month. This month’s release presents findings on naloxone prescribing in the United States from 2012 to 2018 and county-level naloxone dispensing in 2018. Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Key findings of the report: […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection Practices and Sexual Behaviors Among Persons with Diagnosed HIV Infection Who Inject Drugs in the United States, 2015–2017. Approximately 10% of HIV-positive people who inject drugs (PWID) engaged in distributive injection equipment sharing; nonsterile syringe...
The Coalition for Safer Food Processing and Packaging, a national alliance of public health nonprofits, sampled and tested 123 plastic food service gloves from 32 top glove distributors and 15 popular restaurant chains in the U.S. in order to determine which gloves contain toxic chemicals that can escape into your meal. They found that toxic […]
Harm Reduction Coalition released a request for proposals for the Support Harm Reduction & Community Education component of the HepConnect Initiative. The overarching goal of the project is to advance hepatitis C prevention for people who inject drugs by expanding harm reduction services and education through grant-making and technical assistance. Harm Reduction Coalition will be […]
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