In this month’s Digital Health Research Roundup, Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa writes about contraception, drawing on randomized ...

Following decades of development, the United States’ first mRNA vaccines hit the market in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, saving millions of lives and allowing the nation to adeptly ...

Chemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as Cancer Alley. October 15, 2013. Giles Clarke/Getty Images On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New ...

A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health have compiled leading research, analysis, and expert guidance into a new resource to ...

Some wellness influencers warn against consuming seed oils, blaming them for a range of health problems and characterizing them as toxic. Scientific studies consistently show otherwise. “There is ...

Over the past 20 years, autism diagnoses have increased by about 300%, says Christine Ladd-Acosta, PhD, vice director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. It’s a big ...

Researchers concluded that taxing HTPs and cigarettes at the same, sufficiently high rate can combat industry pricing tactics while aligning with public health and fiscal goals. Raising tobacco taxes ...

As of November 2024, over 70 million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid, the government health insurance program that offers free or low-cost health care to adults and families with limited income, ...

In 1971, the FDA approved the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which combined three vaccines that had been approved previously—in 1963, 1967, and 1969, respectively. The vaccine has proven safe ...

Editor's note: This article was updated on March 25. A measles outbreak in the southwestern United States continues to grow as public health officials work to contain the spread and boost vaccination ...

As with any drug or medical product, when we decide to take a vaccine, we want to feel confident that its benefits outweigh any possible risks. Scientists and public health researchers take those ...

The U.S. has one of the lowest tuberculosis incidence rates in the world. So when there are outbreaks of this bacterial infection, like the one reported last month in Kansas, they get our attention.