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As frontline public health professionals, community health workers (CHWs) bridge gaps between health systems and the communities they serve by connecting patients to both health and social services. CHWs often share similar backgrounds or personal experiences navigating the health care system with the patients they serve. These similar experiences can allow CHWs to become trusted…

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Nestlé says national nutrition policy should also consider food industry concerns HEADLINES: | HEADLINES: | Business Nestlé says national nutrition policy should also consider food industry concerns Arthur FuentesABS-CBN News Published August 13, 2026 08:46 PM PHT ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Read More: Nestlé| nutrition| National Nutrition Council| Philippine Nutrient Profile Model| excise tax| health| obesity ABS-CBN…

Medical innovation has transformed our lives, but hardly anyone realizes it. You can tell people that global life expectancy has doubled in a century and watch it fail to register – it just sounds like an abstract number, and numbers don’t convey how different life used to be. So let me describe it another way

Last year, Baltimore had three mass overdose incidents in the span of three months in its Penn North neighborhood

The U.S. Federal Government has released a new government-wide policy establishing an explicit prohibition on dangerous gain-of-function research that could pose significant risks to public health and national security

Brandon Caserta, the U.S. Navy sailor whose death inspired the Brandon Act, is shown in an undated family photo. The Department of Defense recently updated its policy on continuity of mental health care for separating troops, though experts say it still falls short of addressing the vulnerable first year after service. (The Brandon Act)

Warns That State Drug Price Caps Fail to Lower Costs for Patients and Threaten Access for Those with Rare Diseases

Concerns about an increase in vector-borne diseases, which are transmitted to humans by vectors (e.g., mosquitos, ticks, and fleas), often occur as summer peaks. This year has seen an active tick season so far, with above average hospital visits for tick bites. The most common tick-borne disease is Lyme disease, with the most recent CDC…

Health Policy Watch: African Union pushes for greater domestic spending on health amid reports of huge disruptions to HIV and TB services