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Population health, policy and the data behind prevention.

Early Sugar Exposure Linked to Lower Cancer Risk Decades Later

Britain’s postwar sugar rationing linked early-life sugar exposure with cancer risk, telomere length, and lifelong diet patterns decades later.

Backyard bird feeders can bring species into risky close contact as H5N1 spreads, and experts say stopping feeding…

The supplied Becker’s item argues for open healthcare AI infrastructure, but the scraped source lacked enough body text…

CMS is weighing public provider directory scores for Medicare Advantage plans and flat-fee limits for PBMs, signaling a…

A 2025 PLOS One study models Guizhou’s urbanization pattern, proposing a one-body-two-wings structure to support coordinated regional development.

Ambient AI is easing primary care documentation burden, but reclaimed clinician time may drift to throughput unless health…

A qualitative study of U.S. alternate care facilities found flexibility, partnerships, leadership, and resource readiness shaped performance during…

Patients often spend less than an hour choosing a Medicare plan, leaving physicians to manage coverage consequences across…

CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz praised accountable care organizations and linked them to lower costs, better coordination and rural…

Most Pennsylvania legislative candidates in a nurse practitioner survey backed full practice authority as CMS prepares rural health…

Public Health

Population health, policy and the data behind prevention.

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