New Illinois public health laws started Jan. 1: overdose reporting, prenatal syphilis tests, campus contraception; ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 11: Participants hold signs during March for Our Lives 2022 on June 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for March For Our Lives) There has been an ...

As trauma surgeons with more than 60 years of collective experience caring for victims of firearm violence, we have struggled as our patients — many of them children — died or were permanently ...

Editor’s Note: Targeted violence can be prevented before it starts by applying the same four‑step public health approach that CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention used for decades to reduce community ...

Hundreds of students marched outside Denver's East High School on March 3 to honor a fallen classmate, Luis Garcia. He was shot recently just down the street from here and died two days earlier. He ...

Written by Rachael Steimnitz, NAMI-NYC's Director of Workplace Mental Health, and Alayna Auerbach, NAMI-NYC's Manager of Workplace Mental Health Companies have an opportunity to create effective ...

Experts say Biden's focus on addiction health care saved tens of thousands of lives and slowed fentanyl smuggling. Trump ...

Illinois public health laws effective 2026 enhance overdose reporting, maternal care, contraception access, One Health ...

Richard L. Hall is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Peter D. Jacobson ([email protected]) is a ...

Ranney MD MPH, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, Brown University. Twitter: @meganranney COVID-19 has taught us many deadly lessons, among them how ...

But what exactly is “public health,” supposedly the only hope for our sick culture? Since the mid-1800s, the term has been used to describe interventions intended to benefit the health of the greatest ...