The following new articles have just been published in Environmental Health: Source: https://www.biomedcentral.com/ Research (1) Long-term outdoor air pollution and DNA methylation in circulating monocytes: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Chi G, Liu Y, MacDonald J, Barr R, Donohue K, Hensley M, Hou L, McCall C, Reynolds L, Siscovick D, Kaufman J Environmental Health 2016, 15:119 (1 December 2016) Abstract http://ehjournal. biomedcentral.com/articles/10. 1186/s12940-016-0202-4#Abs1 Full text http://ehjournal. biomedcentral.com/articles/10. 1186/s12940-016-0202-4 PDF http://ehjournal. biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/ 10.1186/s12940-01...
MMWR Early Release Vol. 63, Early Release June 24, 2014 PDF In this report Tobacco Product Use Among Adults — United States, 2012–2013 Israel T. Agaku, DMD, Brian A. King, PhD, Corinne G. Husten, MD, et al. MMWR 2014;63:1–6. Despite significant declines in cigarette smoking among U.S. adults over the past five decades, progress has slowed in recent years, and the use of other tobacco products such as cigars and smokeless tobacco has not changed. Additionally, the use of emerging products, including electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), has rapidly increased. This report provides the most recent national estimates of tobacco use among adults aged ≥18 years, using data from the 2012–2013 National Adult Tobacco Survey.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities The COVID-19 pandemic is having profound impacts on public health, extending far beyond tuberculosis (TB) to encompass a wide range of infectious diseases. Recent research by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC) sheds light on some of these effects in detail. During the pandemic, the redirection of all health resources and staff from TB control programs to COVID-19 response teams significantly impacted the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of TB cases. This diversion of resources not only affected TB but also disrupted efforts to combat other infectious diseases. Early detection of various infectious diseases became challenging due to overwhelmed healthcare systems and prioritization of COVID-19 cases. Furthermore, routine vaccinations for children were delayed during the pandemic, leading to a decline in vaccination rates. This delay not only affected TB but also compromised ...
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