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2024 Rewind: The Year’s Most Impactful Public Health Reads

2024 – a year that began with worrisome measles outbreaks and closed with the number of human H5N1 infections creeping up though still posing little...

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What’s Shaping Public Health in 2025

What’s ahead for public health in 2025? Here’s a rundown of the key trends shaping the field, as well as the Primary.Health technology and clinical...

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H5N1 Bird Flu 2024: Understanding the Risks and Protecting Yourself

Conversations around avian influenza A(H5), commonly referred to as H5N1 or bird flu, have frequently appeared in the news cycle in recent months. Today’s post...

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Dec. 12 Webinar: PHL Connect 2025 – Data Modernization Forum

Public health labs administrators and staff, don’t miss out! The Data Modernization Forum presented by Primary.Health is the place to connect with public health professionals...

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Accessible care anywhere: How CLIA-waived testing supports the unhoused

Rising housing prices and economic struggles across many parts of the country have resulted in rising numbers of people becoming homeless. The precise definition of...

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Public health tech can accelerate H5N1 surveillance and response

The latest developments in the H5N1 situation – 58 confirmed U.S. human cases of H5N1, including in a child in California; a British Columbia teen...

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Type 1 vs. type 2 diabetes: Key differences, symptoms, and treatment

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that about 38.4 million people, amounting to 11.6 percent of the U.S. population, suffer from diabetes....

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E. coli explained: Essential facts and prevention steps

Recent news cycles have reported on an outbreak of E. coli infection linked to eating quarter pounders at McDonald’s. To date, it has been linked...

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From farm to table: Enabling public health labs to protect food from H5N1

When we think of public health threats, our minds often jump to pandemics and human-to-human transmission. But threats like H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) remind...

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Fall vaccine update: Protect yourself from 3 common respiratory infections

As autumn rolls in with falling temperatures, we also enter the season for various respiratory illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects...

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Whooping cough returns: What’s behind comeback of this preventable disease

Whooping cough, also known as Pertussis, is a bacterial infection caused by Bordetella pertussis. It was once a common childhood illness that caused a great...

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Sexual health update: DoxyPEP to lower risk of common STIs

The taking of medications to proactively lower risk of getting HIV, also known as PrEP, has been around for over a decade. But now there’s...

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Telehealth NPs meet patients where they are to educate and motivate

Outside of Primary.Health, the experienced nurse practitioners (NPs) on our telehealth team see patients in hospitals, urgent care, and the ICU. However, when they call...

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Lead with the laboratory: Enhancing public health preparedness through interoperability

September marks an important time for public health professionals as we celebrate Public Health Lab Awareness Month and National Preparedness Month. This year, the California...

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Cholesterol by the numbers: making sense of your lipid profile

High cholesterol levels (also known as hyperlipidemia) is a common condition that affects an estimated 10 percent of all Americans over age 20. It is...

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