Highlights
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More communities across the U.S. are working to replace lead service lines, sharing plans to replace more than 380,000 pipes in their water systems. But cost can be a barrier.
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U.S. measles cases have reached a 25-year high this year. At the same time, more than 100 vaccine-related bills were introduced across state legislatures, many of which would end nonmedical exemptions and widen vaccine access.
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In April, a traveler with measles visited Mississippi. But unlike two dozen other states this year, not a single person in Mississippi was infected with the highly contagious virus.
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The All of Us Research Program hopes to have 1 million people in the U.S. take part in an unprecedented biomedical research program. As of May, over 192,000 people across America had started the process of joining.
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Fifteen years since its launch, the National Violent Death Reporting System will now begin collecting data from every state in the country — a major milestone for violence prevention and response
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Media coverage of mass violence can cause distress in people who are exposed to it. That anxiety can drive them to consume more trauma-related media in the future, causing even more distress, a recent study shows.
Check out more public health news in this month's full issue.
Most-read public health news stories of 2018: Check out our top stories, covering health equity, suicide, gun violence, homelessness and more.
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