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Future zoonotic disease pandemics set to turn deadlier, kill 12 times as many people by 2050 due to climate change
The team found that from 1963 to 2019, 3,150 outbreaks had claimed a staggering 17,232 lives in 24 …
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An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools
Shoddy investigations, quiet resignations, and a culture of secrecy have protected predators, not s…
Matt Drange
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Modern Loneliness: A series exploring the loneliness epidemic
Business Insider's series "Modern Loneliness" explores the causes and effects of loneliness, as wel…
Business Insider
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As the US faces a loneliness epidemic, people who experienced social life abroad say they can see why
People are sharing stories about the vibrant social life in other countries in comparison to the US…
Charissa Cheong
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Feeling poor compared to your neighbors can harm your health
Wealth gaps cause serious social comparison, meaning people miss out on connection with and support…
Allie Kelly
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Wealthy Silicon Valley county becomes first to declare loneliness a public health emergency
San Mateo county is one of the wealthiest in the US, hosting the headquarters of tech giants includ…
Alia Shoaib
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Startup founders will face an 'unprecedented' crisis of mental health this year, VCs predict
Founders are experiencing "unprecedented levels of stress" as a funding shortfall threatens to pull…
Melia Russell,Vishal Persaud
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Bill Gates says he warned us about the pandemic in his 2015 TED talk — but '90% of the views were after it was too late'
Gates' 2015 TED talk, in which he said the world was "not ready for the next epidemic," has more th…
Allana Akhtar
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A doctor in Japan killed himself after working 200 hours overtime in a month, family says, highlighting the country's overwork epidemic
A 26-year-old resident doctor in Japan died by suicide after developing depression from being overw…
Joshua Zitser
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1 chart shows why you should care about the silent epidemic of deaths from street drug 'tranq'
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a 276% increase in overdose deaths …
Kate Hull
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Bill Gates says there's 'way above' a 5% risk we haven't seen the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic
The Microsoft cofounder told the FT the pandemic could yet generate a coronavirus variant "even mor…
Sam Tabahriti
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Why high-fructose corn syrup isn't causing America's obesity epidemic and what's really at fault
High-fructose corn syrup is often accused of being less healthy than other sugars, but what matters…
Honah Liles,Samantha Cassetty
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Snapchat rolls out safety features to cut down on sales of illegal drugs after string of fentanyl deaths
Insider previously found at least two dozen fentanyl-related deaths in which the dealer used Snapch…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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SoulCycle founders gear up to launch Peoplehood, which they describe as 'modern medicine for the loneliness epidemic'
The company, slated to open to paying subscribers this month, provides 60-minute "gather" sessions …
Bethany Biron
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The deaths of actor Michael K. Williams and comedian Fuquan Johnson show the opioid epidemic is far from over
The prevalence of fentanyl - a highly potent synthetic opioid - in street drugs is putting even cas…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Photo Essay: As we celebrate the first malaria vaccine, remembering the epidemic's staggering toll
Photographer Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi documented the malaria epidemic's toll during one of the worst …
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
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An FDA official who led the approval of OxyContin got a $400,000 gig at Purdue Pharma a year later, a new book reveals
The FDA approved OxyContin in 1995 believing it would result in "less abuse potential." In 2001, th…
Allana Akhtar
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Auli'i Cravalho made a powerful red carpet statement to bring attention to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women: 'I felt a responsibility.'
The "Moana" actress posed with a symbolic red handprint on her face. Indigenous women are 10 times …
Brianna Holt
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Dr. Fauci responds to uptick in gun violence in the US: 'How can you say that's not a public health issue?'
"When you see people getting killed, I mean, in this last month, it's just been horrifying what's h…
Taylor Ardrey
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Snapchat has become an on-demand delivery app for teens to score illegal drugs. Some kids are dying after taking one pill.
Across the country, families who have lost teens to fentanyl poisoning cite the role of Snapchat, I…