The researchers found dementia risk decreased with higher amounts of physical activity. Dementia risks were 60% lower in ...

The ongoing outbreak poses a low risk to the public, but it signals cracks in our public health infrastructure.

Study thought to be the first national accounting of both juvenile injuries and deaths from shootings by police in U.S.

Lucia Vitale, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz, Adjunct Professor, School of Technology and International Affairs (STIA), Georgetown University Comparing across the national border ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Americans with type 1 diabetes had overweight or obesity at almost the same high rates observed in ...

Two New Studies Provide Broadest Evidence to Date of Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans ...

There’s a lot of noise surrounding vaccines. The Public Health On Call podcast looks at the basics of vaccines and vaccination—including how they work, the science behind safety, the systems built to ...

A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention firearm fatality data for 2020—a year that saw the highest number of ...

A new report from the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that life expectancy in the United States is, on average, 78.6 years versus 81.3 ...

Common questions about influenza and the annual flu vaccine get answers from experts in infectious diseases and public health policy. CR: Flu can spread through the air, which means being near someone ...

The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary ...