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This post is intended to share my personal experience as a tenant and is provided for informational purposes only.

Prospective renters may wish to thoroughly inspect any unit before signing a lease and ask detailed questions about building maintenance, ventilation, moisture, and repair history.

During my tenancy, I experienced concerns including:

Persistent moisture and condensation issues.

Odours that I perceived as stale air, tobacco/cigarette smoke, and poor ventilation.

Concerns regarding mould and potential fungal growth.

Water leakage originating from another unit, which resulted in damage and what appeared to be fungal or mushroom growth near my bathroom area.

These conditions negatively affected my enjoyment of the unit and raised concerns about the overall living environment.

I encourage prospective tenants to conduct their own due diligence, inspect units carefully, document any concerns, and request information regarding previous repairs, water damage, mould remediation, and building maintenance before renting.

This statement reflects my personal experience and observations. My health has significantly declined as a result of being exposed to a toxic living environment that nobody should have to endure. This is a public warning for anyone wanting to rent here.

Hi everyone! I'm the founder of the Global Medical Initiative (GMI), a student-led nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare education and access through community outreach, advocacy, and innovative educational resources.

We're currently recruiting passionate high school and college students interested in medicine, nursing, public health, biomedical research, healthcare policy, education, or community service.

Some of our current initiatives include:

- Collaborating with a local legislator's office to advocate for healthcare policy related to patient transparency

- Creating a children's picture book featuring skin conditions that are often underrepresented in children's media, with the goal of promoting awareness, reducing stigma, and encouraging empathy

- Designing an educational board game that teaches basic hygiene and health skills in a fun, interactive way

- Developing mobile health education kits to bring hands-on health lessons to underserved communities

- Publishing accessible medical journalism to help educate the public about healthcare topics

- Expanding community outreach and global health initiatives

- Hosting health education workshops and volunteer events

We're looking for students who want to make a meaningful impact while collaborating with a team that's passionate about improving health education.

Whether your interests are in medicine, public health, research, advocacy, writing, education, design, marketing, or nonprofit leadership, we'd love to have you involved.

If you're interested, please comment your email address below or feel free DM me with any questions!

Federal and local health officials are investigating a rapidly growing outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness causing severe diarrhea, with over 400 cases reported across 18 states. Michigan alone has seen more than 300 cases, significantly higher than its typical annual count. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to trace potential food sources, advising thorough washing of produce and hands. The illness is spread through food or water contaminated with human feces, with fresh produce often linked to past outbreaks.

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Cyclosporiasis is caused by a parasite that leads to gastrointestinal illness, primarily spread through contaminated food or water. This outbreak has particularly impacted Michigan, which has reported over 300 cases, far exceeding its usual annual numbers. Previous outbreaks have often been linked to fresh produce, highlighting the need for vigilance in food safety practices.

title ^ specifically for bsph/mph grads, where are you now? i'm graduating with my bsph next year and would like a little insight into how the market is rn

I've been developing a free community resource platform called Gather, and I'd love to get honest feedback before continuing to expand it.
Gather is designed to make it easier for people to find help when they need it most. Using your current location, it displays nearby food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, emergency housing, healthcare and urgent care, addiction recovery services, crisis support, clothing assistance, and other nonprofit or public assistance organizations in one place.

But Gather is intended to be much more than a resource directory. One of its core features is helping reduce food waste while getting more food to people who need it. Grocery stores can subscribe to the platform and quickly post surplus food that would otherwise be discarded. Nearby food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, and other aid organizations receive alerts so they can claim and coordinate pickup of available donations before they go to waste. All Subscription proceeds are intended to benefit Partnership to End Addiction.

Gather also includes a community support system that allows aid organizations to create public wish lists of the supplies they need most—everything from hygiene products and diapers to blankets, cleaning supplies, and other essentials. Individuals experiencing hardship can submit requests for needed items through participating organizations. When a donor purchases those items, they are shipped directly to a participating aid organization for local pickup, providing a simple and organized way to connect donors with people in need.
For people who simply want to help their community, Gather also provides an easy way to purchase essential supplies for individuals experiencing homelessness or financial hardship through participating organizations, allowing donors to contribute tangible items where they're needed most.

My goal is to build a platform that not only helps people locate assistance, but also strengthens connections between donors, nonprofits, grocery stores, volunteers, and the communities they serve.
The project is still actively being developed, and I'd really appreciate constructive feedback.

If you work with a nonprofit, grocery store, healthcare organization, or community program, would something like this be useful?

Whether you're a developer, someone who works in the nonprofit sector, or simply someone who wants to help others, I'd genuinely appreciate your perspective.

You can check it out here:
https://live-gather.org

Thanks for taking the time to look it over. Every piece of feedback helps move the project closer to becoming a genuinely useful tool for communities.

I have been accepted to all three programs and all three are within my own financial means. I am a Texas resident and plan to apply to medical school in the next two years after completion of my MPH. In the meantime, I plan to work part-time and volunteer while completing my MPH online.

Could anyone help me make this decision by providing info about these programs, regardless of whether you have or haven't attended these programs? Thank you!

My MPH is in food systems, so even though I am familiar with many aspects of microbiology and infection prevention, I am by no means an expert. My friend's husband just had a precancerous tumor removed from his liver. He was discharged 2 days later and was back in the hospital 2 days after discharge with a blood clot and infection in his arm. He is on day 2 of being back in the hospital, with no improvement so far.

I suggested to my friend to ask for copies of her husband's labs, to ask what bacteria is causing the infection, and if they have tested for antimicrobial resistance, and what antibiotics they have him on. I am worried that providers might talk down to them because their health literacy is probably avg or slightly below avg. I'm concerned that the hospital either discharged him too soon, or it could be nosocomial, or they didn't provide enough information to prevent infection at home. (They have dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, and geese at home.)

Can anyone recommend questions she can ask in order to help her advocate for him? Do the questions that I suggested to her make sense in that setting?

After being an advocate for my mom in the hospital I have seen that some people are wonderful and thorough as providers etc, and some people make mistakes that can have severe consequences because they aren't doing things correctly. I would greatly appreciate any input on navigating those conversations, from someone who works in that setting. Thank you!

Hello everyone,

I’m graduating from undergrad very soon (I just have one last internship course left). I’m a Global Health major (similar to Public Health), and I seriously need a job ASAP. I’ve applied everywhere in the Central Valley, from LinkedIn and Indeed to USAJOBS, CalCareers, and AHA, but I’ve run out of places to look. (If you have any ideas, please let me know!) It feels like every role, even in research, needs a specific certification or 3 years of experience, which makes me wonder what the point of a bachelor's degree is. I’m so broke right now i can't even get certification class (EMT, MA, Phlebotomy, etc.) so that is why I’ve even tried retail and fast food, but still nothing. It has been one month, and I have not gotten a single interview, but instead I have SOO MANY rejection it's not even funny anymore. Sorry for the rant and venting, but genuinely what do I do?

Hi everyone, really appreciate your insight here.

I am someone with POTS MCAS vestibular migraine, SFN, and fatigue and cognitive problems - all due to long covid, since 2020

I also have been active with the patient led research collective (PLRC) and related support and outreach groups such as the ECHO program, for long covid and post viral chronic illnesses.

We were aware early on that the burden of patients seeking care for post covid dysautonomia would strain the seemingly limited resources of physicians who regularly treat it. I imagined there would be some attempts to bring on more doctors to treat the growing numbers of long covid patients needing help for POTS and other manifestation of dysautonomia for example. That did seem to happen in some areas.

However recently I think I am seeing the opposite. A hospital system in Michigan cardiology department stop seeing POTS patients and sent out a memo to pcps on how to treat. Also many allergists who formerly saw MCAS patients are no longer treating them, even with diagnosis from tryptase testing (which is hard to get at the ER when needed.)

Curious for any insights you may have.

1. What financial/business pressures, if any, might be behind these decisions.
2. Have you encountered anti-chronic illness bias in your field in the wake of the increase in chronic illness? “wasting resources” etc
3. What do you imagine the conversations to be like when these decisions are made? I am hoping to understand how declining to see a whole category of people based on a shared diagnosis is justified, especially when the diagnosis clearly fits within their specialty. ie cardiology or neurology for POTS and allergy/immunology for MCAS. Any thoughts on how you imagine that gets squared? Are doctors making these decisions?

Thank you for your insights. There are so so many of us. I am trying to learn what I can to bridge the gaps so that more people in the future can have access to documentation and treatment management for these conditions.

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A second case of measles has been reported in Connecticut, according to officials with the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) on Monday.

The case was found in a vaccinated adult in Hartford County, officials said, noting it was a “weak positive result.”