Tag: health

Physicians have long emphasized individual actions to prevent chronic disease such as eating well, exercising, and avoiding smoking. But even as global smoking rates have dropped, the amount of chronic disease at the population level hasn’t fallen as much as public health researchers had hoped it would.

The COP28(link is external and opens in a new window) climate summit is now underway in Dubai during what is virtually certain to be the hottest year on record. The summit is also noteworthy for being the first to highlight the health impacts of climate change and work toward addressing them in a meaningful way.

the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency.

U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases.

When a Black baby is born in the United States, their fight to live a healthy life begins. Compared to the white baby in the delivery room next door, they’re more likely to be impoverished as children and chronically ill as adults.