Relive the Energy of NCHCMM25
The 2025 National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media (NCHCMM) brought together public health professionals from across the country to share strategies, strengthen skills, and foster meaningful connections. A new highlight reel captures the insight, energy, and community that defined this year’s event—from inspiring speakers to hallway conversations.
NPHIC extends sincere…
Fighting Early-Stage Alzheimer’s with Intensive Lifestyle Changes Works, Study Finds
A groundbreaking 2024 study led by Dr. Dean Ornish suggests that intensive lifestyle changes — including a plant-based diet, daily exercise, stress reduction, and social support — may help stabilize or even reverse early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Over 40 weeks, 46% of participants improved cognitive function and another 37.5% showed no decline. Participants who fully embraced the regimen saw t…
Embedding Preparedness into Public Health: A Call to Action
The July 2025 edition of Domestic Preparedness explores the theme “Readiness is Protection: Embedding Preparedness into Public Health.” In the feature article, Raphael Barishansky underscores that preparedness is not a luxury but a global health necessity. As threats like emerging diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and resurgent illnesses such as measles and polio rise, the call to embed prepa…
Opioid Medications are Getting a New Warning Label
The FDA is updating opioid medication labels to emphasize the risks of overdose, death, and withdrawal, reflecting decades of lessons from the opioid epidemic. New warnings will highlight dangers of high doses and long-term use, while advising providers to prefer immediate-release opioids over extended-release forms except for severe cases.
Labels will also caution against rapid dose reductio…
Turning Overdose Data Into Action: New CDC Dashboards for Public Health Professionals
CDC’s interactive Overdose Data Dashboards offer vital tools for public health professionals to track and respond to the overdose crisis. Featuring nonfatal and fatal data from DOSE-SYS, DOSE-DIS, and SUDORS, the dashboards deliver timely national and state-level insights.
Designed for use by health departments, researchers, and community organizations, these tools support evidence-based deci…
Messaging Matters: Communication Strategies to Combat Mis- and Disinformation for Reproductive Well-Being
A recent session from the Contraceptive Access Initiative underscored the growing threat mis- and disinformation poses to one of the most widely supported public health issues: access to contraception and fertility care. Despite broad, nonpartisan agreement, misleading narratives about contraception, IVF, and pregnancy have fueled public confusion and policy polarization.
To support accurate…
Coca-Cola Will Roll Out Cane Sugar Version of Namesake Soda in the U.S. This Fall
Coca-Cola will introduce a cane sugar–sweetened version of its namesake soda in the U.S. this fall, citing consumer demand for more options. The announcement follows President Trump’s public call for the use of “REAL Cane Sugar,” and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s criticism of high-fructose corn syrup, which he links to obesity and chronic disease.
However, curren…