The federally recommended vaccine schedule for American kids abruptly changed Monday when the Department of Health and Human Services removed several vaccines from the list of shots recommended for ...

First introduced in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero is a road safety strategy that says that no deaths or serious injuries are acceptable. Since then, the strategy has been adopted in multiple ...

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As COVID-19 outbreaks continue to flare up across the U.S., the need for coronavirus testing remains urgent. Individuals rely on test results to guide their medical treatment and decisions on whether ...

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” ...

The CDC released updated provisional gun death data for 2023. While there are some signs of improvement, troubling trends persist, particularly among vulnerable demographic groups. Read our key ...

Americans are impacted by various forms of gun violence—including suicide, homicide, and unintentional deaths, as well as nonfatal gunshot injuries, threats, and exposure to gun violence within their ...

According to a recent Lancet commentary much of the healthcare industry’s reliance on disposable materials is born out of fear and efficiency, with minimal evidence to support the superiority of some ...

According to the study, by 2034, the number of U.S. adults aged 65 and older will, for the first time in history, exceed the of children under age 18, leading to an unprecedented demand for LTSS. LTSS ...

The U.S. has one of the lowest tuberculosis incidence rates in the world. So when there are outbreaks of this bacterial infection, like the one reported last month in Kansas, they get our attention.

After three years of implementing its “zero-COVID” strategy, China has dropped all COVID restrictions. In the weeks since, COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have skyrocketed in a country ...

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 ...