Lindsey Smith Taillie, PhD, is a professor and associate chair of nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on ...

As we prepare for a new school year, an increasing number of children may be vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles, pertussis, polio, and more. New data reported by the Centers ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health has released a new policy roadmap to assist Michigan legislators as they seek to improve state law and ...

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 ...

Seminole, Texas – February 27: Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Memorial Hospital Emergency Department in the Seminole Hospital District. An outbreak of measles in West ...

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.

Editor’s note: This conversation was recorded on January 24. Since then, the Trump administration has ordered the CDC to stop working and communicating with the WHO, effective immediately, and to ...

A new study published in December in JAMIA Open and led by Department of Health Policy and Management researchers including Elham Hatef, MD, MPH, and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, aims to address ...