Local governments are increasingly adopting policies that earmark taxes for mental health services, and approximately 30% of the U.S. population lives in a jurisdiction with such a policy, finds a new analysis published in ...
Apr 18, 2023
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During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and some local governments may have underreported the percentage of Americans who experienced food insecurity by up to ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Almost everyone agrees that putting money behind the national suicide and crisis hotline is a good thing.
Mar 30, 2023
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A ban on selling junk foods from store entrances, aisle ends and checkouts should continue after a new study found the plans were largely backed by the British public and food industry.
Mar 14, 2023
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Since being first introduced into Australia in 1953 improve dental health, water fluoridation has been shown to reduce tooth decay by 26–44% in children and adolescents and by 27% in adults.
Mar 6, 2023
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California's coronavirus emergency officially ends Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation's first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim milestone of 100,000 ...
Feb 28, 2023
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Americans have less medical debt now than they did a couple years ago, possibly because of policies and programs that gave more people access to health insurance and relief funds.
Feb 15, 2023
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The time people spent with family over the festive period could have improved their health, according to new research which examined how social bonds with close social circles and extended groups relate to health and psychological ...
Jan 13, 2023
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Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing.
Jan 5, 2023
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Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of COVID-19 to go to work this week, another sign of the difficulty the country faces as its rollback of virus-containment measures sets off a wave of infections—and ...
Dec 20, 2022
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