Cups for Campus

We're set up in the Farmer's Market! Come find our table and snag a stack of cups before they're all gone.

"Starting on Sunday, more than 150 countries and territories will switch to a new oral polio vaccine. It will be the first worldwide vaccine change ever attempted.

Polio is on the edge of eradication. There were only 74 cases last year, all in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This year, there have been only nine, also in those two countries."

For Polio Vaccines, a Worldwide Switch to New Version A new oral polio vaccine will be stocked in more than 150 countries and territories. Switching it out with the old one will be a logistical test.

It's National Public Health Week!

Check out this website for more information on the role public health promotion and interventions play in our society.

Home | NPHW Since 1995, when the first full week of April was declared National Public Health Week (NPHW), communities across the United States have observed NPHW as a time to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation.

The 2015-2016 Zika Outbreak This infographic offers key facts about the Zika virus, tracks the increasing number of countries reporting local transmission over the past year, and breaks down how key U.S. government agencies are responding to Zika.

IF YOU WORK IN AN OFFICE LISTEN UP

Sitting Increases the Risk of Dying Early Replacing sitting time with just standing or moderate physical activity could counteract the effect.

"The Jersey City Public Schools district discovered lead contamination in eight schools’ drinking fountains in 2006, and in more schools in 2008, 2010 and 2012. But not until 2013 did officials finally chart a comprehensive attack on lead, which by then had struck all but six schools."

Schools Nationwide Still Grapple With Lead in Water The Flint, Mich., crisis has cast attention on the issue, but in schools from Jersey City, N.J., to Los Angeles, problems have dragged on for years.

"An investigation by The New York Times has found that the N.F.L.’s concussion research was far more flawed than previously known."

In N.F.L., Deeply Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to Big To***co An investigation by The New York Times raises questions about the league’s concussion research and its relationship with the to***co industry.

"In the intervening weeks, researchers in labs the world over have shifted their focus to the Zika virus — and that work is already gleaning results. Meanwhile, the virus’s march through the Americas is adding real world epidemiological evidence to bolster our understanding of what humankind can expect from Zika.

Many mysteries remain. But here are some things we’ve learned."

What the world has learned about Zika so far Researchers in labs the world over have quickly shifted their focus to the Zika virus — and their work is already gleaning results.

"In first-in-the-world clinical trials scheduled to launch later this spring, independent teams from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University will take kidneys from deceased carriers of the hep C virus, put them into patients with renal failure, and then give them a 12-week course of an antiviral therapy in the hopes that they will emerge infection-free."

Surgeons to test use of infected kidneys for transplants Transplant surgeons are about to do something long considered taboo: put kidneys from donors with hepatitis C into recipients without the infection.

*rolls eyes*

Ex-EPA official defends agency’s work in Flint water crisis at Capitol Hill hearing Susan Hedman says legal rules, limited powers tied federal regulators’ hands.