Research from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) indicates that restrictions on tobacco and nicotine product sales and marketing may not be enough to stem the continued rise in vaping ...

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At the end of March, the KP.2 variant was causing about 4% of infections in the U.S., according to the CDC, while its parental strain, JN.1, was causing over 50% of infections at that time. As of ...

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A new study 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 ...

Amid the usual upticks in COVID, flu, and RSV among humans this fall, another respiratory illness has been in the news—but this one is affecting dogs. First reported in Oregon over the summer, ...

As with any drug or medical product, when we decide to take a vaccine, we want to feel confident that its benefits outweigh any possible risks. Scientists and public health researchers take those ...

Just a generation or so ago, tens of thousands of people in the U.S.—mainly children—were afflicted by paralytic poliovirus. In 1955, an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which contained a “killed” ...

Two people are standing in line at the grocery store. One has a cart full of instant ramen, hot dogs, ice cream, and soda, and the other has a cart full of whole grain bread, breakfast cereal, creamy ...

For women in the U.S. carceral system, access to reproductive health care isn’t often simple. The rules surrounding abortion in particular vary widely from state to state and even among prisons in the ...

Older adults at greater risk of dementia may be able to decrease their risk of cognitive decline by nearly half by using hearing aids, according to a new study published in The Lancet. Over a decade ...