Utilizing a notification system that's fast becoming a nationwide model, the state of Connecticut is diverting more than half of substance-exposed infants identified at birth away from the child welfare system, instead connecting ...
Sep 12, 2022
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Japan has an increasing percentage of young adults with no history of heterosexual vaginal intercourse. Public health experts at the University of Tokyo have completed the most detailed analysis of national fertility survey ...
Apr 8, 2019
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Gay and lesbian adults have greater confidence that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and are more likely to be vaccinated than heterosexuals, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Feb 16, 2022
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In an unprecedented windfall for public access to health data, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers have collected and digitized all weekly surveillance reports for reportable diseases in ...
Nov 27, 2013
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It's still too soon to have definitive answers to some big questions about omicron, labeled in late November by the World Health Organization as a COVID-19 variant of concern. On Dec. 7, the Bloomberg School of Public Health's ...
Dec 13, 2021
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Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners dropped again last year, and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up.
Jan 12, 2023
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(Medical Xpress)—How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted? UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first ...
Jul 5, 2013
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When Elizabeth Spinelli arrived at Fort Lauderdale's Holiday Park for a coronavirus test, a nurse handed her a form to write her name, address, date of birth and social security number. She hesitated to give her personal ...
Jun 18, 2020
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A recent study estimates that more than 275,000 people—or 4.6 percent of people over the age of 11 in Massachusetts- have opioid use disorder, a figure nearly four times higher than previous estimates based on national ...
Oct 25, 2018
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Following much debate among public health experts about the benefits of another COVID-19 booster, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could approve second boosters of the mRNA vaccines as an option for people 50 and older ...
Mar 29, 2022
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