April 2018

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) new air quality model confirms that 92% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits....

National Health Education Week is sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and is held during the third full week of October. SOPHE is an independent professional association represented by 4,000 health education professionals and students throughout the United States and 25 international countries....

World Polio Day was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis....

Since 2014, Stacy Bolyard, a Sales Coordinator for MCN Healthcare, has volunteered her time and passion for running with Achilles International, a non-profit organization that assists athletes with disabilities....

September is Sepsis Awareness Month and on September 8th and 9th the first World Sepsis Congress was held. Sepsis is a medical emergency which was recently confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

There are not many of us who have not been affected by suicide. According to the CDC, “Suicide is a serious but preventable public health problem that can have lasting harmful effects on individuals, families and communities.”...

The United States Breastfeeding Committee officially announced August as National Breastfeeding Month beginning in 2011....

With the Zika virus in the news everyday did you know that the mosquito is one of the deadliest animals in the world? Mosquitoes carry and spread diseases that have caused millions of deaths per year; malaria alone caused 438,000 deaths in 2015....

World Hepatitis Day is an opportunity to highlight the global burden of this disease. Viral hepatitis – a group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E causes both acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) liver disease....

The CDC has received reports from international healthcare facilities that Candida auris, an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) yeast, is causing invasive healthcare-associated infections with high mortality....