New study details gaps between actual and recommended use of statins and other lipid-lowering drugs—and estimates public ...

About the Podcast The Public Health On Call podcast makes important public health topics accessible to all through quick, informative conversations. Hosts tackle complex topics through engaging ...

Lethal means safety counseling gives health care clinicians the tools they need to: Determine if a person at risk for injury or death has access to lethal means, including firearms, sharp instruments, ...

History In 1967, Johns Hopkins received one of National Institute of Mental Health’s first grants specifically to establish a formal two-year Fellowship Program in Suicidology (the study of suicide).

Pneumonia continues to be the leading infectious cause of death for children under 5, responsible for millions of hospitalizations and hundreds of thousands of child deaths worldwide. Most of these ...

MMI Professor Gary Ketner will retire this summer. Gary has been a faculty member in MMI since 1987. Gary Ketner, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) ...

Challenge Evaluation of candidate SARS-CoV2 vaccines is accelerating rapidly. However, currently registered trials exclude pregnant and lactating women (PLW), despite the fact that they have also been ...

Gun-related suicides in the U.S. reached record highs in 2023, even as gun homicides continued to decline from their pandemic-era peak, according to a new report from the Center for Gun Violence ...

How Do Countries Build And Scale Interoperable Digital Health Systems? Brazil, Ghana, India, Finland, and Rwanda are leading the way. Join CGDHI, WHO’s Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH), and ...

to change that with 25% or higher tariffs on imported drugs. The stated rationale is that tariffs would incentivize drugmakers to set up shop in the U.S., create more jobs, and improve national ...

Researchers analyzed survey responses from more than 500,000 responses across 1,438 ZIP codes in Pennsylvania, collected between September 2020 and June 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adults ...

, drowning claims the lives of approximately 300,000 people around the world each year. Children and young people are among the most at risk—particularly those under the age of five, who account for ...