Tag: public health
Vaping was pitched as the safer pregnancy option: a new SUDI study complicates that
New research on infant deaths puts the "safer alternative" claim under fresh scrutiny.
1.2 billion people now live with a mental health condition, and anxiety leads the surge
A landmark Lancet analysis shows the global mental health burden has nearly doubled in a generation.
MMR is being split into 3 shots by executive order. Here is what the science shows
The order collides with four decades of clinical evidence and with a vaccine supply that does not yet exist.
England is close to wiping out hepatitis C, and the cure is already in US pharmacies
England has treated 100,000 people in a decade using pills that are also FDA-approved here.
Too little sleep rivaled smoking as a predictor of how long people live
A new analysis of more than 3,100 US counties found short sleep second only to smoking.
New AHA data on America’s heart: Decades of progress have started to slip
New AHA data shows decades of mortality gains are slipping across the US.