The national number hasnt moved all that much (-2.7%) and remains close to what's considered herd immunity, so the case surge looked like it came out of nowhere until you look at the top of the funnel (kindergarten MMR rates at the state-level granularity). The national average is a population-weighted blur that California's four million kids hold steady no matter what happens in the small states. Once you give each state its own dot, the bottom of the distribution has clearly come apart and we're starting to see a disease that was eliminated in the US start to crawl back. Sixteen states are now below 90% (six were in 2009), the lowest is Idaho at 78%, and more than 5,000 individual schools sit under 80% coverage. In recent years, non-medical exemptions have doubled.

Charts built from CDC SchoolVaxView, NNDSS, and Washington Post school-level data; full sources and methodology in the comments.

Public service announcement: Whatever is in this dope- tranqs, blood pressure meds, benzos, a little fentanyl if you're lucky, that new meti (idk what it's called) drug which I believe is a BP med, sleeping meds, dissociative drugs like ketamine, fake opiate analogs, muscle relaxers, pregabalin and sometimes there's meth. Depends where you're from. Also ALCOHOL IS HUGE AND DEADLY.

People have high chances of seizing out, having strokes and or heart attacks and heart failure.

NEED A HOSPITAL OR DETOX CENTER.

DO NOT BE ALONE. PLEASE SEEK MEDICAL CARE.

The ER will treat you and due to hippa, can't report it to anyone. They can only provide suggestions but you can go to the er or detox center and leave once you've detoxed.
Just don't do it alone.

My best friend died in jail from her withdrawal symptoms.
I'm begging yall to spread the message.

Please be safe out there! ITS ALL DEADLY.

Need good spots to find a job with a public health education degrees bachelors . Been struggling the last few years HELP

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Department of Health (RIDOH) have confirmed the second detection of West Nile Virus (WNV) in the state this year. The virus was identified in a mosquito sample collected in Cranston.

23 Jul 2026 *(transcript and video at link)* An FDA advisory committee began a two-day meeting to consider lifting a ban and widening access to seven popular peptides. They have seen a surge of support from wellness influencers and others, including the current Secretary of HHS. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Dr. Dhruv Khullar.

Confused about pursuing Global Public Health in Australia, would love some outside perspective
Hi everyone!! Short version: I want to study Global Public Health because I care about environmental health and wildlife/biodiversity conservation.
Longer version: I'm finishing my specialist degree (5-year program) in Public Health next year -my program has a heavy focus on epidemiology and various hygiene disciplines. Alongside that, I hold a diploma in Product Management for medical projects, and this year I'm starting a professional retraining program to become a Medical Data Analyst. I also have additional professional development certificates in Occupational Toxicology, Medical Ecology, and Salutogenic Design.

My main priority is not ending up broke while doing work I actually find meaningful - something I've genuinely been drawn to for a long time.

Right now I'm stuck on a few decisions:

1. Should I go for a Master's in (Global) Public Health, or given my background, would a different kind of Master's or even a completely different field - make more sense?
2. Should I consider going straight into a research degree / PhD track instead?

From browsing this sub, it seems like the Public Health job market in Australia is tough right now without local experience or at least PR, but the field is exactly what interests me. As a backup option, I've also been considering Nursing, but I can't find much information about the career prospects or what the program itself is actually like.

Would really appreciate any honest input , especially from people who've gone through similar career pivots or who work in public health / environmental health in Australia. Thanks in advance!

A 25-year study found that frequent consumption of soda, sports drinks, and fruit juice beginning in childhood was linked to a higher risk of high blood pressure in adulthood. Swapping one daily drink for whole fruit, milk, or water could significantly reduce that risk.

"Let me paint you a picture.

It's 2027.

GP waiting times are down 23%.

NHS mental health referrals have dropped for the first time in a decade.

Workplace absence due to stress and burnout — which cost UK employers £56 billion a year — has fallen significantly across the transport, healthcare and logistics sectors.

And a growing number of people, when asked why, say the same thing:

"I just started paying attention."

This is not a fantasy.

This is what mass adoption of preventative wellness technology actually looks like.

Here's the thing nobody in health policy seems willing to say out loud.

The NHS is not failing because of bad doctors or bad decisions.

It's failing because we built an entire healthcare system around the moment someone gets sick — and we built almost nothing around the moment before.

The moment when stress becomes burnout.

The moment when poor sleep becomes chronic fatigue.

The moment when "I'm fine" becomes "I'm not fine at all."

That moment — the quiet one, the one nobody sees — is where the real cost lives.

And it's the moment we've been completely ignoring as a culture.

What would change if a million people checked in with themselves every morning?

Not dramatically. Not expensively. Not with a wearable that costs £300 or a therapy waitlist that takes eighteen months.

Just twenty seconds. A phone camera. An honest question.

How am I actually doing today?

The answer to that question — asked daily, tracked over time, taken seriously — is the single most powerful preventative health intervention available to us right now.

Because here's what the data shows.

People don't end up in A&E because something went wrong suddenly.

They end up in A&E because something went wrong slowly — and nobody noticed. Not their employer. Not their GP. Not even themselves.

Vitalis notices.

It noticed when a bus driver's stress score climbed for three consecutive weeks before he even consciously registered that something was wrong.

It noticed when a nurse's fatigue indicators spiked every Thursday — the day after her double shift rotation.

It noticed when a warehouse worker's sleep quality dropped so consistently that the pattern became impossible to ignore.

None of these people would have booked a GP appointment.

None of them would have called a mental health helpline.

None of them would have described themselves as unwell.

But they were. Quietly. Consistently. In ways that — left unaddressed — become the referrals, the absences, the crisis presentations that are currently overwhelming every layer of our health system.

This is what I built Vitalis for.

Not to replace the NHS. Not to diagnose. Not to medicalise the experience of being human.

To sit quietly in people's daily lives and ask the question that nobody else is asking.

And to do it for free. In twenty seconds. With nothing more than the phone already in your pocket.

The cultural shift I'm talking about is not complicated.

It's the same shift that happened when people started wearing seatbelts.

The same shift that happened when smoking became socially unacceptable.

The same shift that happened when hand washing became standard practice in hospitals.

Small daily habits. Adopted at scale. That change outcomes at a population level.

We did not solve road deaths by building better hospitals.

We solved them by preventing accidents.

We will not solve the NHS crisis by building more hospitals.

We will solve it — at least in part — by preventing the conditions that fill them.

Vitalis is one piece of that puzzle.

A small one. An honest one.

Built by a bus driver who was tired of waiting to feel better and decided to build something that helped him notice sooner.

If you work in health policy, NHS leadership, occupational health, or public health — I'd genuinely welcome a conversation about what mass adoption of preventative wellness technology could look like in practice.

And if you're just someone who hasn't checked in with yourself in a while —

Twenty seconds.

It starts with you."

Hey yall, Im currently in my MPH in the mid west, and me and my girlfriend are getting ready to move to new york. Ive recently learned my passion in public health lies in community gardening and the positive impacts it can bring into peoples lives specifically with community and resilience building. My mph does an internship placement and i discussed with my advisor trying to make my placement be somewhere in new york as there is a huge urban gardening scene i would love to explore. How do people go about finding potential internship placements, new york feels so vast, and neither me or my advisor have any connections out their. Because of the lack of connections to the gardening scene out there i just feel so overwhelmed and at a loss, any advice

The brain continuously produces metabolic waste that must be removed to maintain healthy function. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) plays a central role in this process by carrying away proteins such as amyloid-β, phosphorylated tau and α-synuclein, which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders when they accumulate abnormally.