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Weekly Health Digest: West Nile Virus Warnings, Psychedelics in Sports, and Weight-Loss Legal Crackdown

September 15, 2025
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: warnings for West Nile virus, psychedelics use among sports stars, and regulators take on compounded drug advertising.

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Weekly Health Digest: Plastic-Eating Insects, Vaccine Skepticism, New Stroke Treatments, Aging and Heat

September 8, 2025
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: plastic-eating insects, changing vaccine mandates across US states, new prevention and treatment for cardiac events, and health risks of extreme heat.

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Weekly Health Digest: US Meth Usage, GLP-1 Pill, Autism Studies

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: The dangers of today's methamphetamines and our limited tools to stop them, Eli Lilly's progress towards a GLP-1 pill for diabetes and weight management, Robert F. Kennedy's demands for environmental health studies for possible causes of autism.

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Weekly Health Digest: Maternal Mortality, Microplastic Accumulation, Pollen Allergies, Reversing Extinction

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Maternal mortality rates after delivery, microplastic accumulation in human brains, increases in pollen with increased climate change, biotech company brings dire wolves back from extinction.

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Weekly Health Digest: Sleeping with Socks, Shingles Vaccination, “Electroceutical” Treatments

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: How socks can lead to better sleep, the biological mechanism from the shingles shot that reduces dementia risk, deep brain simulation and its use against treatment-resistant mental health disorders.

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Weekly Health Digest: 23andMe Bankruptcy, NIH Cuts, Pregnancy Physiology, Fluoridation Ban

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Fear of privacy violations in wake of 23andMe bankruptcy and sale, another round of NIH lay-offs with more coming, how the body experiences pregnancy and recovery from childbirth, and Utah's water fluoridation ban.

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Weekly Health Digest: Seasonal Allergies, Firefighter Health, Dementia Risk

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Understanding development of seasonal allergies in adults, studying cancer risk in LA firefighters, demystifying the risk of dementia

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Weekly Health Digest: Wegovy Discounts, Science Protests, Mystery Disease

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Novo Nordisk reduces monthly cost of Wegovy for uninsured patients, Stand Up for Science Rallies across the world to protest funding cuts, mystery disease in Africa appears after dissolution of USAID

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Weekly Health Digest: AI Therapists, Measles Outbreak Repercussions, Exercise Benefits

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: The dangerous nature of chatbot therapists in the new age of AI, what the West Texas measles outbreak suggests about other vaccination, the importance of physical activity in protecting mental health

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Weekly Health Digest: NIH Funding, Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine, Semaglutide Shortage, Foodborne Outbreaks

February 25, 2025
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Federal judge temporarily blocks NIH funding cuts, mRNA vaccines under testing for pancreatic cancer patients, semaglutide shortage ending and what it means for compounded drugs, understanding the spike in severe foodborne illness cases.

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