New study details gaps between actual and recommended use of statins and other lipid-lowering drugs—and estimates public ...

Nutrition scientists explain the benefits of consuming canola and other seed oils as part of a healthy diet.

stresses that without significant improvements in the LTSS infrastructure, many older adults may struggle to remain independent as they age. Aging in place is a primary goal for most aging adults, ...

Two health policy experts explain how Medicaid spending cuts could affect health care facilities, clinicians, and services, as well as millions of Americans who depend on the program.

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 ...

The challenges to controlling the outbreak, the importance of vaccination, and important caveats to the role of vitamin A in treating measles.

Experts worry that misinformation and falling vaccination rates could cause measles outbreaks to become more common in the U.S.

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

published in December in JAMIA Open and led by Department of Health Policy and Management researchers including Elham Hatef, MD, MPH, and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, aims to address inequities in ...

Measles outbreaks have hit multiple U.S. states, vaccination & rapid reporting are critical to limit the spread & hospitalizations ...

If past is prologue, federal environmental protections may see a rollback—but state and local efforts could stem the damage.

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 ...