Contamination of your drinking water from PFAS chemicals could also pose a threat to your health. Municipalities in Rhode Island and all across the country are taking advantage of settlement money to remove them from drinking water. PFAS can be found in just about everything, but there are a few things you can do to…

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – Southwest Louisiana Center for Health Services in Lake Charles is a local nonprofit offering patients everything from medical to dental and even mental health services. The president and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers is touring facilities nationwide and stopped by our local center today. “Much of…

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana University will improve the health of Hoosiers by applying innovations and expertise built through its decades-long partnership in Kenya to rural and urban communities throughout Indiana. <img width="500" height="281" alt="An overhead shot of a group of women in Kenya" data-alt="An overhead shot of a group of women in Kenya" data-caption="The reciprocal innovation…

A new Japanese ecological study revealed that prefecture-specific participation rates for Specific Health Checkups (SHC participation rates) had significant negative effects on prefecture-specific standardized incidence rates (SIRs) of treated ESKD and prefecture-specific prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The findings support the importance of increasing SHC participation rates at the population level and encouraging people…

The owner of two Portland bars says she can’t take another rising cost. “Taxes and fees just keep increasing,” she said, testifying before county commissioners. PORTLAND, Ore. — Businesses in Multnomah County might have to pay a higher fee for health inspections as the county considers raising the price. This would impact hotels and restaurants…

While organizations and activists continue to call climate change a global emergency and public health crisis, there has been little movement to issue an official declaration in the United States. As California Governor Gavin Newsom establishes himself as a leader in the area, he is positioned to declare climate change a public health emergency, utilizing…

Hopelessness and despair threaten health and longevity. We urgently need strategies to counteract these effects and improve population health. Prosociality contributes to better mental and physical health for individuals, and for the communities in which they live. We propose that prosociality should be a public health priority. The COVID-19 pandemic produced high levels of stress,…

A helicopter from MONUSCO leaves Oica, North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. January 15, 2019. (World Bank/Vincent Tremeau) Recent health emergencies such as the 2018–2020 Ebola crisis in DRC, in conjunction with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrate the importance of health responses that take the local context into…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new proposal to increase health inspection fees for food, pool and tourist services will go before the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday. The Department of Health says the current fees are not enough to support the staff and resources they need. The department’s proposal includes four consecutive years of…

Gut health and digestive health impacts the body as a whole. An unhealthy gut can lead to poor mental health, a weakened immune system and gastrointestinal diseases, per Healthline. Several superfoods are thought to promote gut health and improve digestion. “Our gut plays such a tremendous role in our total health,” says Sotiria Everett, clinical…