The health of a nation is often measured in economic terms – how much a country chooses to spend, where that money comes from, what it spends it on and how much that money translates into quality of care…
A wealth of research on social media shows that COVID-19 misinformation is damaging to public health.
With every new incident of racial violence, Black people tend to undergo a collective sense of racial grief.
USAID has a decades-long history of fighting smallpox, polio, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV.
To deal with microplastic pollution, it helps agencies to know what kind of plastic they’ve got on their hands.
Standards for prenatal care for incarcerated women vary from state to state, and when care is available, the quality might not be adequate.
Increasing isolation threatens global health. International cooperation is critical to fighting diseases that will not respect borders.
Fathers whose own dads were highly nurturing tend to have healthier levels of competition and be more emotionally open.
The Affordable Care Act has allowed many preventive health services, including cancer screenings and vaccines, to be free of charge. But legal challenges may lead to costly repercussions for patients.
Specimen preservation means researchers don’t need to reinvent the wheel each time they ask a new question, making it critical for the advancement of science. But many specimens are discarded or lost.
