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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The polio vaccine is a public health success so profound that few people in the U.S. even think about the disease the vaccine prevents. But before the vaccine was approved in 1955, polio was a widely ...