A quarter of the way into the 21st century, emerging from the most consequential pandemic in 100 years, public health finds ...

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is a cornerstone in global health research and the ...

Rapidly aging populations and rising cases of lifestyle-related diseases (LRDs), like diabetes and hypertension, are driving ...

Lead poisoning was once thought to largely be a problem of the past, as the globe gradually weaned itself off leaded gasoline ...

Lifestyle-related diseases are rapidly increasing, particularly among the lower socioeconomic brackets of the society. To ...

A strange and largely forgotten U.S. delegation to the USSR in 1963 offers lessons about autism, diagnosis, and politics, ...

Uptake of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine during pregnancy is not linked to increased risk of adverse perinatal ...

Most mothers follow some of the recommendations for infant sleep and care practices, but only one-fifth follow all, a study ...

A large proportion of people with severe mental disorders receive no formal care, because of infrastructure gaps, stigma and ...

Hawaii come out on top, with a life expectancy of 79.9 years, while Mississippi ranked last with a life expectancy of 70.9.

Governments in the Middle East and Central Asia need to increase spending in areas such as social protection, education and public health, where vulnerabilities have been exposed by the coronavirus ...

A large-scale neuroimaging study of over 10,000 U.S. children reveals that income inequality in society is tied to structural and functional brain changes that predict poorer mental health outcomes.