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Diet and exercise will only get you so far, but there is a magic bullet that could make us all live longer, says professor of ...
Just as a doctor might diagnose a patient based on symptoms and environmental exposures, Houghton and Castillo-Salgado’s ...
Cuts to public health and Medicaid don’t make costs disappear — they just shift them downstream to the health care system. Hospitals are already seeing the fallout: longer wait times, overburdened ...
Assistant Professor Carlos Martinez's latest co-edited book explores the public health impacts of punitive policing, incarceration, and deportation policies and describes how the abolitionist health ...
As childhood vaccination rates drop in the U.S., outbreaks of measles are rising. In his new book, Booster Shots, Dr. Adam Ratner makes the case that this is a bad sign for public health.
A new study from Yale researchers estimates the life expectancy in cohorts born in 1900, 1950, and 2000. Not only do they ...
A new textbook edited by UB faculty member Leonard Egede explores health care inequalities, their origins and how to address ...
The Lies We've Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us sets out her hope of living to the age of 100 years in good health “as a collective endeavour”, an aim many share. Improving the length of ...
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health has announced the passing of Julio Teja Pérez, a former minister and prominent figure ...
In "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson report that officials concealed signs of Biden's cognitive decline ...
A fake smallpox attack, buoyed by deepfakes, has the potential to overwhelm health services, erode trust in institutions, and provoke unrest.