Nutrition scientists explain the benefits of consuming canola and other seed oils as part of a healthy diet.

Two health policy experts explain how Medicaid spending cuts could affect health care facilities, clinicians, and services, as well as millions of Americans who depend on the program.

A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health have crafted a new tool for lawmakers to write effective safe firearm storage laws.

In 1971, the FDA approved the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which combined three vaccines that had been approved previously—in 1963, 1967, and 1969, respectively. The vaccine has proven safe ...

The challenges to controlling the outbreak, the importance of vaccination, and important caveats to the role of vitamin A in treating measles.

, spoke with Josh Sharfstein, MD, about the science behind vaccine safety. He explains the high standards for vaccine safety in the U.S., the ways government agencies and public health researchers ...

In two new papers, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues estimate that abortion bans in 14 states resulted in 22,180 additional live births and 478 additional ...

The ongoing outbreak poses a low risk to the public, but it signals cracks in our public health infrastructure.

published in December in JAMIA Open and led by Department of Health Policy and Management researchers including Elham Hatef, MD, MPH, and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, aims to address inequities in ...

Outbreaks of H5N1 continue to rise in dairy cattle and poultry, as well as in other wild and domesticated animals, including the first confirmed infection in a pig. Human cases also continue to occur, ...

Hot weather, human behavior patterns, and an easily mutating virus create the perfect recipe for COVID to peak in the summer.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, ending the federal right to abortion, 14 states have banned the procedure. But even in the states that have since shored up abortion protections, those ...