Discussing the tradeoffs in public-health decisions might help us make better choices, write Dr. Christopher Worsham and Dr.

In contrast, modern medicine illustrates what happens when the public lacks information and has little input: educators and ...

Oct. 23, 2024 — A new paper explains why there needs to be a shift in cannabis policies to a public health approach as opposed to the prevailing, more punitive approach that pushes abstinence ...

In the wake of state public health officials barring promotion of certain vaccines -- as is occurring in Louisiana -- ...

The world faced many public health challenges this year, including dangerous heat waves and outbreaks of the infectious diseases dengue and mpox. In the United States, after years of increases, there ...

Half a decade on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study by the University of Surrey highlights the significant impact of combined public health measures in reducing airborne viral ...

To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to ...

1 But, before the public can weigh in ... US citizens do not know how frightful their mental health care is, that medicine refuses to adopt the teaching that would cure it, or that they can ...