Public Health

There are questions that worry me profoundly as a population- and environmental-health scientist. Will we have enough food for a growing global population? How will we take care of more…

Americans’ use and willingness to use video telehealth has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising most sharply among Black Americans and people with less education, according to…

Ensuring that everyone can access resources and care to live healthy, self-determined lives should be a core pillar of philanthropic work. Yet too often, we end up throwing money at…

The woman was desperate by the time she arrived in Lucy Schulson’s exam room. Patches of itchy blisters had spread across her skin. Other doctors had assured her it was nothing, a…

New York City this week announced it would launch what it described as the first-of-its-kind Abortion Access Hub — a phone line that confidentially connects callers to licensed abortion care providers within…

More than 90 percent of the country’s coal plants are contaminating water across 43 states, according to a new report. And nearly half of them have no plans to clean up…

Interviews with family members who cared for COVID-19 patients after hospital discharge reveal unique challenges. Roughly 21% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at the height of the pandemic required an intensive…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to review a drugmaker’s application for the first over-the-counter birth control pill in November 2022, with a decision expected in the first…

Detecting cancer early before it spreads throughout the body can be lifesaving. This is why doctors recommend regular screening for several common cancer types, using a variety of methods. Colonoscopies,…

In one of the first studies to explore how COVID-19 specifically affects older infants, researchers found that the number of infected people in a household was the factor most closely…

Drug overdose deaths from opioids continue to rise in the U.S. as a result of both the misuse of prescription opioids and the illicit drug market. But an interesting trend…

For far too long, the medical sciences have treated men and women as interchangeable subjects, favoring men’s health for funding and the male body for study. This approach creates a…