Public Health

Disturbed sleep can worsen depressive symptoms of health care workers whose jobs come with high levels of emotional labor and work-family conflict.

The drugmaker’s move responded to the growing competition that has shaken up the insulin market in recent years.

Expanding Medicaid eligibility reduced Black-white disparities in preventable hospitalizations and ER visits by 10% or more, a new study shows.

More people in the US get cancer screening when employers are mandated to provide paid sick leave, research finds.

Photo by Jodi Covington, Unsplash Rural hospitals are seeking ways to survive, and as pandemic money moves out, what are their choices? “One…

In 1986, the federal government mandated that states provide therapy for newborns and toddlers with developmental delays and disabilities. But the program has been plagued with severe racial gaps in access and quality.

Though speaking out requires them to relive losing their wanted pregnancies, four plaintiffs told The 19th they’re doing it because they know they’re “not the only ones like this.”…

Editor’s Note: This paper is part of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, which is a partnership between the Economic Studies Program at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer C……

Black women who perceive racism at work, in housing, or with the police have a 26% higher risk of coronary heart disease than those who don’t.

In the summer of 2021, a toxic, smoky haze stemming from Western wildfires wafted across large parts of the United States, while hurricanes wrought extensive flooding in the southern and…

The coal industry may be dying in the U.S., but its health impacts are not, report finds.