Meet our Health Hero of the Year, Armonté Butler
Butler is a leading advocate for progressive sexual health education, particularly for marginalized communities, in the U.S.
Infant mortality in the U.S. worsened after Supreme Court limited abortion access
Of the extra infant deaths counted since the 2022 Dobbs decision, congenital anomalies caused the vast majority. Researchers ...
Drug costs, abortion, Obamacare: How Trump and Harris could change U.S. health care
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both pledging to make health care more affordable in the U.S., but have largely different ...
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Johns Hopkins public health expert joins Baltimore's Center for Urban Families in unique partnership
Bloomberg School faculty epidemiologist Amanda Smith will serve as organization's director of research and evaluation to ...
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Joseph Amon to direct Bloomberg School's Center for Public Health and Human Rights
Amon, who comes to Johns Hopkins from Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, brings years of experience advocating for ...
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision Keeps Getting Worse
A new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics found that infant mortality in the U.S. worsened after the ...
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Brown epidemiology scholar Jennifer Nuzzo elected to the National Academy of Medicine
The professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown’s School of Public Health received the honor in ...
Is this year’s COVID booster a good match for new variants?
Depending on when you last got vaccinated, that COVID-19 shot may no longer be a good match for the variants expected to dominate this fall and winter.
Plant-based milks are better for the environment, but are they for our health?
There are now myriads of plant-based milks in addition to dairy. But are these alternatives made from soy, almond, rice, peas ...
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Regulation of flavored tobacco products pushed
Researchers from the Ateneo Policy Center on Wednesday called for the regulation of flavored tobacco products to discourage ...
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Joseph Amon, Epidemiologist and Human Rights Activist, Named Director of Bloomberg School's Center for Public Health and Human Rights
Amon plans to continue the Center’s work of teaching and conducting research related to stigmatized and historically ...
FDA's promised guidance on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias, say experts
The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema. The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well ...