Three Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health professors have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, along ...

Chemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as Cancer Alley. October 15, 2013. Giles Clarke/Getty Images On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New ...

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Gun-related suicides in the U.S. reached record highs in 2023, even as gun homicides continued to decline from their pandemic-era peak, according to a new report from the Center for Gun Violence ...

Over the past 20 years, autism diagnoses have increased by about 300%, says Christine Ladd-Acosta, PhD, vice director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. It’s a big ...

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 ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes—the species responsible for most of the world’s malaria cases—is a promising target for future malaria-control strategies, according to a ...

The U.S. has one of the lowest tuberculosis incidence rates in the world. So when there are outbreaks of this bacterial infection, like the one reported last month in Kansas, they get our attention.

Editor’s note: This conversation was recorded on January 24. Since then, the Trump administration has ordered the CDC to stop working and communicating with the WHO, effective immediately, and to ...

A new report from the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that life expectancy in the United States is, on average, 78.6 years versus 81.3 ...

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, ...

The fluoride in our water has passively protected the oral health of Americans for decades by reducing cavities, tooth decay, and dental health disparities. So much so, that the CDC has declared ...