FINDINGS FROM DOH BIRD FLU SURVEY FOR BACKYARD FLOCK OWNERS AND BIRD RESCUERS
FINDINGS FROM DOH BIRD FLU SURVEY FOR BACKYARD FLOCK OWNERS AND BIRD RESCUERS Posted on Jul 24, 2025 in Newsroom HONOLULU — A survey by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH) finds that while most local residents are aware that the bird flu had been detected in Hawai‘i, roughly two-thirds of flock owners had […]
KAUAʻI DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICE TO CONDUCT CASPER SURVEY TO ASSESS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
KAUAʻI DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICE TO CONDUCT CASPER SURVEY TO ASSESS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Posted on Jun 5, 2025 in Newsroom LĪHUʻE, Hawaiʻi — The Hawaiʻi Department of Health’s (DOH) Kaua‘i District Health Office will conduct a Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) survey in June to assess the emergency preparedness level of Kauaʻi households. […]
Over 80% of Nurses Face Workplace Violence, Survey Finds
U.S. nurses reported a surge in workplace violence in post-pandemic times, according to a new survey from the nation’s largest nursing union. In National Nurses United’s (NNU) poll of 914 nurses, 46% said workplace violence had increased and 82% said they had experienced at least one type of violence at work in 2023. Additionally, 68% […]
Most Patients Don’t Realize HPV Causes Throat Cancer, Survey Finds
Most respondents to a survey conducted at an academic medical center were not informed of the relationship between human papillomavirus (HPV) and throat cancer by their healthcare providers, a study showed. Among 271 respondents who visited an otolaryngology clinic, only 23.3% understood the relationship between HPV infection and throat cancer and a mere 7.4% said […]
Top 5 Doctor Specialties for Extroverts
[embedded content] According to a 2018 survey, 28% of physicians reported leaning more towards extroversion than introversion, and 38% identified as an even mix of both introversion and extroversion. Here are the top 5 best medical specialties for extroverts: Psychiatry Family Medicine & Pediatrics Internal Medicine Emergency Medicine Physician Leadership 1. Psychiatry First up on […]
Fewer Emergency Department Visits End With Opioid Prescriptions
Fewer emergency department (ED) visits end with a prescription for opioids, CDC survey data showed. The percentage of ED visits with an opioid prescribed at discharge fell from 12.2% in 2017-2018 to 8.1% in 2019-2020, reported Loredana Santo, MD, MPH, and Susan Schappert, MA, of the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, in […]
Invasive species are taking over some American forests: A plant survey finds dozens of nonnative invasive species thriving in Ohio
A new botanical survey of southwest Ohio found that invasive species introduced to the United States over the past century are crowding out many native plants. Biologists from the University of Cincinnati are retracing two exhaustive surveys conducted 100 years apart to see how the Queen City’s plant diversity has changed over the past two […]
Astronomers find evidence for most powerful pulsar in distant galaxy
Astronomers analyzing data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars — the superdense remnant of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. Images from the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) indicate that bright radio emission powered by the spinning pulsar’s magnetic […]
New treasure trove of globular clusters holds clues about galaxy evolution
A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters — old, dense groups of thousands of stars that all formed at the same time — in the outer regions of the elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. The work presents a significant advance in understanding the […]
Supportive strategies help ‘picky eaters’ deal with food aversions
In a large national survey, adults who struggled with picky eating habits as children overwhelmingly said they benefitted more from positive and encouraging strategies their parents used than forceful or coercive approaches. The research, led by a team at Duke Health, was conducted among a generation of people who struggled with food avoidance before it […]