public health
The Biden administration has reversed Trump’s rhetoric around migrants but not all of his policies.
Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Yvonka Hall, Yvonne Pointer, and Frances Mills are beacons of hope in the face of racial disparities.
Behind the Ebola epidemic are issues of basic health care. Combating it involves fairly basic public health measures and education.
The "war on drugs" approach to marijuana has had major costs. But the dawning era of legal marijuana presents its own set of public health problems.
At the International AIDS Conference, one thing was clear: even if a cure is found, the struggle against the virus will continue.
Eliminating food deserts isn’t enough. The nation’s diet problem calls for sustained community attention--and better federal policy.
Christopher Shea highlights a new study that analyzes the effect of U.S. grain and soy subsidies on the American diet. The study's abstract leads with its contrarian, we're-taking-on-Michael-Pollan angle: Many commentators have speculated that agricultural policies have contributed to increased obesity rates in the United States, yet such claims are often made without any analysis of the complex links between real-world farm commodity support programs, prices and consumption of foods, and caloric intake.