7 stories tagged "public-health"
A Pentagon-funded fentanyl vaccine licensed to startup ARMR Sciences will begin Phase 1 in the Netherlands in early 2026. Three decades of failed addiction vaccines, and a supply chain that runs through Chinese precursor labs, are the context the press release leaves out.
Nutrition & FoodA Frontiers in Public Health survey of 8,336 Brazilians over 60 found older men reach for the saltshaker most. Buried in the same paper: the shaker only accounts for 6 to 20 percent of total sodium. The other 70-plus percent already arrived from the factory.
Nutrition & FoodA non-randomized trial of 36 English discount stores produced a moment-of-implementation bump in produce sales that lost statistical significance by three months, and a household-purchasing signal that never landed. The authors' immediate call for a national layout mandate is the louder finding.
Infectious DiseaseA new global synthesis on free-living amoebae explains why a single bad month at a public splash pad is enough to kill a child, and why the CDC's existing protocol would have caught it.
Nutrition & FoodA May 2026 review by two geriatric researchers, syndicated this week by ScienceDaily, restates what twenty years of trial data have already shown: the supplement aisle is built around vague promises older Americans do not need, while protein, the gap that actually moves aging outcomes, sits in the m
InvestigationsAustralia extended facility detention of six hantavirus contacts to a full 42 days under the Biosecurity Act after they tested negative. WHO's own guidance reserves that option for the high-risk tier; most peer countries chose monitoring.
Infectious DiseaseWashington has built a wall around the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. The last time America tried this, the evidence says the wall leaked, and so did the response.