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"Parents need to understand that acknowledging mental health challenges doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It simply means you’re opening up a line of communication."

Help Children With Mental Health Issues Before They Escalate Why do some parents choose not to act when their child is going through a mental health crisis? And what can and should parents do to keep mental illness from getting to a fever pitch?

This , ensure your voice is heard by making sure you are registered to vote.

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Ever since video games became mainstream decades ago, there have been questions about their negative effects on sleep, behavior, and relationships.

But can video games—and the communities that form around them—also have positive effects? Michelle Colder Carras, a senior associate in the Johns Hopkins Department of International Health and the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation, explores how gaming communities can support mental health in her latest study.

Supporting Veteran Mental Health through Video Games | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health A grassroots mental health program delivered through Discord shows a positive aspect of online gaming.

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For third straight year, fi****ms killed more children and teens, ages 1 to 17, than any other cause including car crashes and cancer.

Guns Remain Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions latest annual report highlights CDC 2022 firearm deaths, with focus on young people and people of color

“The attraction of the Comstock Act to persons who are trying to ban abortion nationwide, not just state by state, is that it’s already law,” says Joanne Rosen, a public health attorney and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

“You don’t have to draft and introduce and pass a brand-new law; you have to find a way to enforce a law that already exists.”

How a Zombie Law Could Ban Abortion Nationwide If Trump Is Reelected Using the Comstock Act to nationally ban abortion would defy modern public opinion and the law’s historical interpretation, experts say

It’s all about timing! Following the recommended childhood vaccination schedules helps protect little ones from serious infectious diseases when they’re most vulnerable.

Swipe through to learn more about the vaccination schedules and the importance of adhering to them.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines-children/schedules/reasons-to-follow.html

“We really need to be focusing more on upstream, community-based, public health approaches to this major and leading cause of death.”

Native-led su***de prevention program focuses on building community strengths A research group is testing a new su***de prevention model in rural Alaska Native villages: supporting cultural activities that strengthen community bonds and a sense of shared purpose.

"Nearly 6 percent of U.S. middle and high school students reported using e-cigarettes this year compared with last year’s 7.7 percent."

Youth va**ng on the decline, federal survey shows Nearly 6 percent of U.S. middle and high school students reported using e-cigarettes this year compared to last year’s 7.7 percent.

We know that exercise, sleep, and good nutrition do a lot to help us to handle stress. Prioritizing these things goes a long way to make people more resilient at any stage of life.

5 Fixes for Aging in America | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine Shifts in attitudes and policies can pave the way to thriving in later life.

Advances in three key areas will help us ensure people everywhere enjoy longer, healthier lives.

Rewriting the Story of Life’s Later Years | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine

Untangling relationships among sleep, physical activity, and brain health may suggest ways to reduce dementia risk.

Activity, Sleep & Dementia | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine

“People are like, ‘There’s not a whole lot you can do about it,’ and that is why, societally, we need to do something about it,” says Gigi Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an author of a 2021 report on the benefits of improving ventilation in schools.

“We did this for water once upon a time, and we can do it for air.”

Kids Are Headed Back to School. Are They Breathing Clean Air? Clean indoor air protects against diseases such as COVID and flu, but we’re not doing enough to ensure it

The upsurge of cases of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other countries has been a declared public health emergency of international concern.

Swipe through to learn about the public health emergency. For the most updated information: https://www.who.int/health-topics/monkeypox =tab_1

COVID vaccines are one of the best and safest ways to protect against severe illness and hospitalization. Updated COVID vaccines are chosen to target the variants currently circulating and are recommended for everyone 6 months of age and older.

What to Know About Updated COVID Vaccines for 2024–25 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The updated COVID vaccine provides safe, effective protection against current variants for everyone 6 months and older.

Caregivers are an increasingly important part of the aging discussion, especially as older people are living in their communities longer. But often their work goes unseen and unacknowledged, and they experience a number of stressors that take a toll on health.

To learn more about caregivers and how public health can support them, visit: https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/caregivers-health-cares-hidden-workforce

“Neighborhood is just one domain of structural racism, but it can affect the quality of the schooling, the quality of the air and water … and whether people have access to green space or healthy food,” Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing explains.

Reducing Racial Disparities in Dementia | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine Step one in closing the gap: Measure the impact of structural racism.

"Most fungi can’t cause disease in humans because they can’t grow at our temperature, which is 98 degrees Fahrenheit," explains Arturo Casadevall, chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology.

"But as the world gets warmer, fungi have to adapt to higher temperatures or perish. So the thought is that the fungus has been adapting to the environment, and then got into a situation where it can infect humans, and we have a new emergence."

The Rising Threat of Fungal Diseases | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health As the planet warms, fungi are adapting to survive at higher temperatures, becoming drug-resistant—and posing threats to human health.

Updated COVID vaccines are rolling out across the U.S.

The updated vaccines provide safe, effective protection against the variants currently causing the majority of COVID infections in the U.S.

Johns Hopkins virologist Andrew Pekosz provides all the details on the updated COVID vaccine.

Read the full Q&A: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/what-to-know-about-updated-covid-vaccines-for-2024-25

Women with West African ancestry have twice the risk of developing triple negative breast cancer and are more likely to die from it than women of European ancestry. The big question is: Why?

Two-Way Science: Exploring Cancer’s Ancestral Links | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine Brittany Jenkins-Lord seeks clues in the lab and the community to understand the biological causes of cancer disparities.

In the 1970s, Alaska had the highest rate of hepatitis B virus infections in the U.S., and Alaska Native children had the highest rate of hepatocellular carcinoma due to hepatitis B in the world.

A Four-Decade Follow-up on Hepatitis B Immunity | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine CDC epidemiologists revisited Alaskan villages to see if people who received hepatitis B vaccines in 1981 were still protected against the virus.

Reducing frailty and disease is just the first step in helping seniors live their best possible lives.

The Mysteries of Aging Well | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine

“As questions about human biology and variability get more complex, we are bumping up against the limits of animal models,” says Paul Locke, an environmental health scientist and attorney with Johns Hopkins Environmental Health & Engineering.

“The thing you run into with animals—and there’s no way to get around this—is that animal biology is just too different from human biology.”

Can Better Biotech Finally Replace Lab Animals? Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could improve medicine

In conflict-affected and displaced communities, such as in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma (Myanmar), older women and men may suffer abuse and neglect at the hands of their families—further compounding the challenges brought on by war.

A Wider Lens on Aging | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine Public health research examines aging at every level, from molecular to societal.

The American Red Cross is facing a serious blood shortage— their national blood supply has fallen by more than 25% since July 1. But here’s how many of you can help.

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“This identification of H5N1 in indoor-only cats is a big concern,” says Meghan Davis, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Bird Flu Is Infecting Pet Cats. Here’s What You Need to Know As bird flu spreads in cats, cows and other animals, it has more opportunity to adapt to easily infect humans

A tiny bite can have a big impact. On , we recognize the global fight against malaria. Despite challenges, innovations like gene drives hold promise.

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