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Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 涩里番 researchers.

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 涩里番 researchers.

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 涩里番 researchers.

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 涩里番 researchers.

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 涩里番 researchers.

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 涩里番 researchers.

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 涩里番 researchers.

96 Global Health NOW: U.S., Canada Risk Measles-Free Status; WHO Warns of Tobacco Treaty Interference; and Brazil's Teen Pregnancy Turnaround October 28, 2025 A nurse demonstrates how to put on a mask at a measles screening point at Victoria Hospital, in London, Ontario, on July 9. Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty U.S., Canada Risk Measles-Free Status
The consequences of teetering government commitments to vaccines and falling vaccination rates are emerging across North America.    Measles-free no more: Canada and the U.S. are poised to lose their status as countries that have eliminated measles, . Canada鈥檚 year of continuous measles transmission and its 5,000+ cases this year make it likely that a November PAHO meeting will determine the country is no longer measles free. The U.S. may soon get the same label.      Muzzled experts: Doctors and public health experts in Florida have been reluctant to speak out about a state plan to end required childhood vaccinations, . 

• Pediatricians are afraid of losing business, county health department officials refer reporters to state officials, and University of Florida infectious disease experts were told not to speak to reporters without supervisor approval.  

Needed: 鈥淚t鈥檚 really those vaccine champions from communities that help improve vaccination, spread awareness about the need for vaccination, and kind of create the positive change that we need in order to ensure that these outbreaks don鈥檛 persist and don鈥檛 continue to happen,鈥� 涩里番 epidemiologist Nicole Basta .     Not needed: When a reporter asked Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo if his team had created computer models of potential outbreaks after the policy change, he replied 鈥渁bsolutely not,鈥� and added that parents鈥� freedom of choice wasn鈥檛 a scientific matter.     Related: 
Threat to U.S. vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off 鈥�&苍产蝉辫;     Kansas City health experts say confusing CDC vaccine guidance risks wider spread of infections 鈥�      Measles outbreak in South Carolina grows; Canada鈥檚 elimination status threatened 鈥�&苍产蝉辫; DATA POINT

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Portion of air pollution-linked deaths attributable to noncommunicable diseases in 2023. 鈥�
  The Latest One-Liners   The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia is committing grave atrocities in Darfur鈥檚 regional capital, El Fasher, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) warns, citing ethnically motivated killings, summary executions of civilians attempting to flee the area, and attacks on humanitarian volunteers attempting to administer aid.
  Thousands of stillbirths鈥攏early 30%鈥攐ccur without clear warning signs or clinical risk factors, of ~2.8 million U.S. pregnancies that documented ~19,000 stillbirths between 2016 and 2022鈥攚ith Black families and poorer communities bearing a disproportionate toll.     Cigarette butts are an 鈥渙verlooked yet potent鈥� vector for antibiotic resistance genes, that detected 95 potential pathogens in cigarette butts collected from 105 urban green spaces and 35 cities across China.
  Weight loss drugs are lowering the U.S. obesity rate, albeit slowly鈥攆rom a high of 39.9% three years ago to 37% of U.S. adults this year, that shows a doubling in the number of people taking the drugs over the past year and a half.   BIG TOBACCO WHO Urges 鈥榁igilance鈥� Against Tobacco Treaty Interference  
The tobacco industry is ramping up efforts to undermine an international treaty to reduce smoking and vaping, ahead of a key meeting in Geneva next month, .

Background: The meeting will involve updates to the , a 20-year-old treaty with 183 signatories that includes policies on advertising limits, health warnings, and smoking bans.

Big Tobacco tactics: But ahead of the meeting, the WHO is urging governments to 鈥渞emain vigilant鈥� to various ways the tobacco industry is infiltrating and manipulating delegations, including posing as consumer, economic, or scientific groups to promote misinformation in 鈥渁 deliberate strategy to try to derail consensus.鈥�    Meanwhile, in the UK: A British lawmaker who is pushing against a proposed ban on tobacco to anyone born after 2008 has a relative who is 鈥渧ery high up鈥� at British American Tobacco, .  GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES FAMILY PLANNING Brazil Turns Around its Teen Pregnancy Epidemic    Brazil once had one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Latin America, with ~750,000 Brazilian girls ages 15鈥�19 giving birth in 2000.     But over 25 years, births among that age have plummeted 44%, falling below 400,000 in 2019, with ~281,000 projected for 2025.    Contraception intervention: The primary driver for the reversal has been the rapid expansion of birth control access, with free birth control, condoms, and IUDs provided by the country鈥檚 national health system, Sistema Unica de Saude.     Outreach: Community health program Saude da Familia sends educators door to door to share family planning options.     Broader change: Poverty reduction, improved education, and expanded internet access have transformed opportunities for young women.       OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims 鈥�

Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or 鈥楬umiliation鈥�? 鈥�

This 'minor' bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic 鈥�&苍产蝉辫;

Anti-abortion pregnancy centers are looking to offer much more than ultrasounds and diapers 鈥�     Some viruses can play a deadly game of hide and seek inside the human body 鈥�     Clocks to go back: Three impacts Daylight Saving Time changes can have on you - what the science says 鈥�     Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals 鈥�   Issue No. 2812
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96 Global Health NOW: Diphtheria鈥檚 Dangerous Return; Bird Flu Rebounds; and Model of Healthy Architecture October 27, 2025 Pediatrician Mohamud Omar examines a child鈥檚 tonsils in the diphtheria ward of Demartino Public Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, last month. Brian Otieno/The New York Times Diphtheria鈥檚 Dangerous Return    Diphtheria, a deadly bacterial disease long controlled by vaccines, is spreading again in regions destabilized by conflict and climate-driven displacement, as hospital wards throughout parts of Africa and the Middle East fill with children struggling to breathe.    Fueling factors: Mass displacement, COVID-19 pandemic disruptions, and vaccine hesitancy have left millions of children vulnerable鈥攅specially in regions with hollowed-out health systems.  

• And global aid cuts this year have contributed to severe malnutrition and the shuttering of immunization programs.  

Global spread: Outbreaks have erupted in Chad, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen; sporadic cases are appearing in Europe among refugee and migrant communities.  

• While the U.S. rarely sees travel-related cases, full kindergarten vaccination rates including diphtheria coverage from 95% in 2020 to 92% in 2024鈥�25. 

High danger, urgent intervention: Diphtheria now kills up to 1 in 4 infected children in low-resource settings, prompting Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to create emergency vaccine funding for boosters. 

• 鈥淲e didn鈥檛 even have a diphtheria support modality, because we didn鈥檛 need one. And now we have to build out a whole new process to help countries respond,鈥� said Katy Clark, a diphtheria expert with Gavi.  

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  "What is very sad is many people were cheering in the streets because they were happy there was a peace deal. Imagine, (some of) those same people are dead after they were told the war is over." 鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺�� Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general: Gaza health 'catastrophe' will last for generations 鈥�&苍产蝉辫; The Latest One-Liners
Gun violence is trending downward for more than three-quarters of U.S. cities with the most shootings鈥攊ncluding Chicago, Baltimore, Memphis, and Los Angeles鈥攑er an analysis of 150 U.S. cities; the trend holds across red and blue cities and states in every region of the country.  
  South Africa regulators have approved lenacapavir鈥攎aking it the first African country to register the twice-yearly anti-HIV injection, and at record speed (within 65 days); distribution could roll out as early as February 2026. Thanks for the tip, Elna Schutz!    
NHS England is trialing a 15-minute blood test that distinguishes between bacterial and viral infections, allowing faster diagnoses and reducing the overprescription of antibiotics; the trial among children will run in three EDs through March.  

The recycling process increased levels of toxic chemicals in polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a type of plastic commonly used for food packaging, that suggests a direct tie between recycling intensity and the level of chemical contamination in recycled products. INFECTIOUS DISEASES Bird Flu Rebounds    After a lull in cases for the past several months, bird flu is rapidly making a comeback worldwide, leading scientists to warn of a potentially severe viral season.     In Europe, early outbreaks are being reported in the highest number of countries in at least a decade, . From August to mid-October, 56 outbreaks have been reported in 10 EU countries and Britain, with the most reported in Poland, the top EU poultry producer.     In the U.S., the virus has hit dozens of poultry flocks since the start of September, killing , including 1.3 million turkeys that will impact Thanksgiving supply, . Idaho, Nebraska, and Texas have reported . And .   

• But the government shutdown and federal health cuts are causing scientists to question whether the U.S. has an adequate response plan and communication, .   

Related:    Bird flu prevention zone measures introduced to prevent disease's spread 鈥�     Germany culls over 400,000 poultry amid bird flu outbreak 鈥�     What does it mean if a deadly strain of bird flu has been found on Australia's Heard Island? 鈥�   GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH How Ants Model Healthy Architecture    To gain fresh insights into health-based building design, scientists just had to think a little smaller.  

• Black garden ants can quickly adapt their nest architecture to limit the spread of deadly fungal infections, .

Disease defense on demand: Ants infected with the lethal fungus Metarhizium brunneum isolate themselves while others restructure their nest to include more compartments, longer and more winding paths, and fewer connections to reduce contact and protect the queen and larvae. 
  Scaling up: Scientists say such dynamic and collective strategies could one day inspire public space designs that can reduce disease transmission in humans.      OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS UN alarmed by 鈥榯errifying鈥� situation in Sudan鈥檚 El Fasher, calls for immediate ceasefire 鈥�      DRC: Cholera Epidemic Rapidly Spreading Across The Country 鈥�     Meet the nurse in Uganda who climbs a 1,000-foot ladder to save lives 鈥�     WHO Report Raises Alarm on Clinician Mental Health, Working Conditions 鈥�      New Initiative Aims To Bring Doctors Up To Speed On Down Syndrome 鈥� Thanks for the tip, Chiara Jaffe!     AI chatbots are sycophants 鈥� researchers say it鈥檚 harming science 鈥�   Issue No. 2811
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Thirty-five years ago, polio, a highly infectious viral disease, paralysed around 350,000 children per year. Following a UN-led international push, that number is now less than 50.

96 Global Health NOW: Cancer Besieges Lebanon; The Untold Stories Contest of 2026 Has Launched, and A Jaw-Dropping Face-Off October 23, 2025 A flock of birds flies over a cloud of smog. Beirut, Lebanon, August 14. Joseph EID/AFP via Getty Cancer Besieges Lebanon    Beirut is often shrouded in smog pumped out by unregulated vehicles and diesel generators. Cigarette smoke permeates public places.  
  The toxic air and smoke have contributed to a staggering cancer crisis in Lebanon, , which analyzes the cancer burden worldwide from 1990 to 2023 and forecasts the cancer burden up to 2050. 
  The survey projects that cancer cases and deaths will rise worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries. But Lebanon鈥檚 crisis is particularly acute, :  

• The country has the fastest increase in cancer incidence and deaths worldwide, with new cancer cases up 162% and deaths by 80% over the period covered in the survey.  

Systemic inaction: Lebanon has no anti-smoking or health education campaigns. And few people seek out available screening tools due to low awareness.  

• 鈥淐ancer is killing 鈥� Why have you been waiting so long to take action?鈥� study coauthor Ali Mokdad asked of the Lebanese government. 

Meanwhile, a rise of several cancers in adults of all ages worldwide could be driven by obesity, finds a separate global cancer study published in the , which recorded an uptick in cancer incidence rates from 2003 to 2017, .     Related: Of Corn and Cancer: Iowa鈥檚 Deadly Water Crisis 鈥�  Thanks for the tip, Cecilia Meisner! GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners

1,600+ measles cases in the U.S. have been reported this year, , as an linked to two schools with low vaccination rates expands to 20 cases.

Major methane leak alerts from the world鈥檚 oil and gas sectors are often ignored by companies and governments, despite improved satellite detection from the UN Environment Programme, , which determined that just 12% of alerts lead to responsive action.

Pregnant detainees in ICE facilities in Louisiana and Georgia are not receiving adequate care, says the ACLU, which called on U.S. officials to release expectant and postpartum mothers from federal detention facilities.  

Members of Gen Z are significantly underrepresented in clinical trials and health studies, meaning millions of young people could miss out on new treatments for health conditions, or may risk using unsafe or ineffective medication due to low participation in medical research.  

UNTOLD STORIES CONTEST OF 2026 Boatmen sleep inside mosquito nets on their boats on the Buriganga River. Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 24. Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto via Getty Send in Your Untold Stories 
! A joint effort between GHN and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, this annual contest is your chance to spotlight an underreported issue that you care about. 

• Nominate an issue you feel deserves a broader audience, whether you鈥檝e worked on it firsthand or come across it in your travels. 

• If you win, we'll send a reporter to cover your story and help it get the spotlight it deserves. 

Pro tip for Professors: Having students write a short (50-word max) pitch makes a great assignment. Students have won in some of our previous years!  
  Looking for inspiration? Check out some of our , including , reported by Lucien Chauvin, and , covered by Joanne Silberner. 

• Deadline: November 24, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST
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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH When a Menstrual Cycle Brings Mental Chaos    Millions of people worldwide experience premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) marked by extreme mood changes, irritability, and thoughts of self harm.  

• of ~3,600 women with PMDD found that 82% had suicidal thoughts , and 25% had tried to end their lives   

Despite symptoms that typically impair a person鈥檚 daily life, diagnosis is inconsistent. Clinicians often debate whether PMDD falls under gynecology or psychiatry.  

• By , 90% of women with PMDD are mistakenly thought to have another condition. 

Treatment options vary widely鈥攆rom hormonal contraceptives, , and therapy to drug-induced menopause or surgical removal of reproductive organs.    Despite the high burden, PMDD research and funding lag behind comparable women鈥檚 health conditions.      ALMOST FRIDAY DIVERSION A Jaw-Dropping Face-Off    Like all elite athletes, competitors in the World Gurning Championships all seek the optimal physique: A flexible forehead with extremely muscular eyebrows. A lower lip that can stretch over the nose. And a bug-eyed stare befitting a Halloween mask.    After all, a win hinges on 鈥渢he grotesqueness of the grimace鈥� contenders make onstage, per the official rules of this centuries-old 鈥渞everse beauty pageant鈥濃�� a fixture of the annual Egremont Crab Fair in Egremont, England, . 

• 鈥淕urning鈥� is another word for making the kind of face your mother warns 鈥渨ill freeze like that鈥�; the sort of grimace people make when they bite into the sour crab apples for which is named. 

The rules: Competitors contort their faces while framed with a horse collar called a 鈥渂affin.鈥� Per the official rules, no hands or excessive makeup may be used; however, 鈥渢hrashing around onstage and making wild, animal-like noises鈥� is acceptable. To an extent:  

• 鈥淵ou've got to make people laugh without scaring the children,鈥� organizer Lesley Rogers told . 

QUICK HITS Hundreds of thousands of NHS workers urge Starmer not to cut support for Global Fund 鈥�  
'An urgent public health crisis': Why so many people are struggling to get medicine 鈥�  
How Did Dengue Go Global? This Mosquito Species Might be to Blame. 鈥�  
Nicholas Kristof: Opinion: Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires 鈥�  
HIV specialists in short supply, especially in the South 鈥�  
Updated CPR guidelines provide expanded recommendations for managing choking and opioid overdose 鈥�  
Why Women Feel Unsafe in Nature: The Gender Gap in Green Spaces 鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Issue No. 2810
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Gaza鈥檚 health system remains in ruins despite the fragile ceasefire holding, with hundreds of thousands still facing urgent medical and humanitarian needs, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.

涩里番 is proud to present the聽2024 Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases听迟辞听Dr. Joseph C. Wu, Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.

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涩里番 is proud to present the聽2024 Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases听迟辞听Dr. Joseph C. Wu, Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.

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涩里番 is proud to present the聽2024 Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases听迟辞听Dr. Joseph C. Wu, Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.

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涩里番 is proud to present the聽2024 Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases听迟辞听Dr. Joseph C. Wu, Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.

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96 Global Health NOW: Anti-Science Bills Sweep U.S; Azithromycin Trial Has No Impact on Infant Deaths; and 鈥楪ut-Healing鈥� Food Treats Malnutrition October 22, 2025 Crates of freshly bottled raw milk at the Lolans Farm stand. Middleborough, Massachusetts, March 17. David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Anti-Science Bills Sweep State Legislatures     A wave of legislation aiming to weaken or roll back public health protections has been introduced in U.S. states this year, , which of 420+ bills, and found that ~30 such bills have already been adopted in 12 states.     Most of the laws focus on three categories鈥攙accines, raw milk, and water fluoridation鈥攁nd cover a range of directives, including:  

• Anti-vaccine bills: Make it easier to get vaccine exemptions; prohibit vaccine requirements; place more restrictions on certain vaccines or programs.  

• Raw milk: Remove restrictions on raw milk sales.  

• Fluoride: Ban fluoride in drinking water or make fluoridation a ballot measure.  

Organized effort: While campaigns behind such legislation typically frame themselves as grassroots, found that most are backed by well-funded national organizations tied to HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and include members benefiting politically and financially.    Conspiracy-to-policy pipeline: The trend signals the normalization of an anti-vaccine movement that has already led to falling vaccination rates and the comeback of preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough.  

• 鈥淭he march of conspiracy thinking from the margins to the mainstream now guiding public policy should be a wake-up call for all Americans,鈥� said Devin Burghart, president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. 

GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners   DRC鈥檚 cholera outbreak has spread to 20 of the country鈥檚 26 provinces, with 58,000+ suspected cases and 1,700+ deaths so far this year, M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res reports; separately, the UN issued a warning that incidents of rape and conflict-related sexual violence in the country have surged by a third compared to last year. ;  
Ambulances supplied to Malawi by the UK Aid Match Maternal Health program from 2015 to 2018 were sold off to fund repairs for officials鈥� cars, drawing outrage from locals and civil society groups; one official defended the move, claiming that the vehicles 鈥渨ere faulty and would be costly to fix.鈥�  
A hepatitis A outbreak in the Czech Republic is among the worst the country has seen in decades, with 21 deaths and 1,842 cases recorded earlier this month; centered in Prague, the outbreak has begun to spread to other regions.  
  Men who use plastic tableware have a higher accumulation of microplastics in their semen and lower sperm counts, that studied samples from ~200 men of reproductive age in Chongqing, China.   U.S. and Global Health Policy News   The Pentagon Retreats from Climate Fight as Heat and Storms Slam Troops 鈥�  

It鈥檚 been a month. And we still don鈥檛 know much about Kennedy鈥檚 long COVID consortium 鈥�      Government shutdown means many CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious disease 鈥�     The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump鈥檚 Medicaid Purge 鈥� INFANT MORTALITY Mass Azithromycin Trial Has No Impact on Infant Deaths    A major trial in Mali that aimed to help reduce infant mortality through mass antibiotic distribution had no impact on infant death rates, 鈥攆indings that could change WHO-recommended intervention tactics.     Background: After a 2018 trial showed that administering the commonly used antibiotic azithromycin 2X per year reduced deaths in 1鈥�5-year-olds, the WHO recommended the intervention for infants.     The study: 149,000+ infants ages 1鈥�11 months received either a placebo every three months, or azithromycin, distributed 2X or 4X per year.  

• Mortality rates were nearly identical across all groups.  

Implications: Researchers suggest that broader age groups may need to be targeted to see a benefit鈥攖hough that could raise antibiotic resistance risks.          Related: 鈥業 fear we are sitting on a time bomb.鈥� Scientists debate mass distribution of antibiotics in Africa 鈥�    GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES MALNUTRITION The Growing Impact of a 鈥楪ut-Healing鈥� Food    A food supplement for undernourished children that also seeks to repair the gut microbiome is gaining recognition after .    Feeding the body鈥攁nd bacteria: Severe childhood malnutrition can lead to the maldevelopment of digestive bacteria critical for growth and immunity.  

• The new food formulation, dubbed MDCF-2 (microbiome-directed complementary food), blends chickpea, soybean, and peanut flours with green banana into an affordable combination that nourishes this microbiome.  

• The therapeutic food was the result of a collaboration between researchers studying malnutrition at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and those studying the gut microbiome at Washington University in St. Louis.  

Global reach: Studies of MDCF-2 are currently underway in India, Mali, Pakistan, and Tanzania.       OPPORTUNITY Community Reporters from ICFP and the Family Planning News Network (FPNN) interview Indigenous activists in Riohacha, Colombia, in August 2025. Courtesy of ICFP It鈥檚 Not Too Late to Register for ICFP    The fight for sexual and reproductive health and rights is happening now鈥攁nd you can be part of it.    Join the International Conference on Family Planning 2025 virtually to connect with advocates, learn from global leaders, and add your voice to a movement shaping the future of health and equity worldwide. 

• November 1鈥�6, 2025
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QUICK HITS Dangerous or life-saving? Why drug programs that stop disease are under fire. 鈥�     More Europeans are dying from HIV now than 15 years ago 鈥�  
Eight countries added to methanol poisoning warning list 鈥�     WHO warns $1.7bn funding shortfall threatens polio eradication efforts 鈥�     More people are freezing their eggs 鈥� but most will never use them 鈥�      How one Michigan town is putting partisanship aside in pursuit of clean water 鈥�     Bird flu hiding in cheese? The surprising new discovery 鈥�   Issue No. 2809
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Findings could help tailor interventions to encourage physical activity in older people with heart and blood flow conditions

A diagnosis is often a cue for people to change the way they live. For people diagnosed with cardiovascular conditions such as heart disease or diabetes, it is often a motivator to get more physical exercise, which can improve long-term health. However, the rate of physical activity increase after diagnosis varies widely depending on the individual.

Findings could help tailor interventions to encourage physical activity in older people with heart and blood flow conditions

A diagnosis is often a cue for people to change the way they live. For people diagnosed with cardiovascular conditions such as heart disease or diabetes, it is often a motivator to get more physical exercise, which can improve long-term health. However, the rate of physical activity increase after diagnosis varies widely depending on the individual.

Findings could help tailor interventions to encourage physical activity in older people with heart and blood flow conditions

A diagnosis is often a cue for people to change the way they live. For people diagnosed with cardiovascular conditions such as heart disease or diabetes, it is often a motivator to get more physical exercise, which can improve long-term health. However, the rate of physical activity increase after diagnosis varies widely depending on the individual.