Patient enrollment in clinical trials as the first course of treatment after cancer diagnosis is low, despite the fact that enrollment may increase life expectancy, according to researchers at Penn State. They also found ...
Jan 21, 2020
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Interventions to improve nutrition, especially for children and pregnant women, can be critical for health, physical growth and cognitive development, enabling better lives and futures. Reams of policy papers will attest ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Communities can prosper by providing attentive education and social services to their youngest residents—but the challenge is for leaders to work together.
Dec 1, 2023
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Living in a high-income neighborhood, having private health insurance, and being older are tied to an increased likelihood that life support will be withdrawn for people who have suffered severe bleeding in the brain, a new ...
Jan 18, 2024
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Incorporating targeted food and nutrition strategies into health care on a national level will improve health and quality of life, reduce work for hospitals, and cut health care costs, according to experts studying Food is ...
Sep 26, 2023
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Loneliness is increasingly recognized worldwide as a critical social issue and one of the major health hazards of our time. Our research shows older private renters are at high risk of loneliness and anxiety. This is a growing ...
Jun 12, 2019
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law on July 30, 1965, roughly half of Americans 65 and older had no health insurance.
Jul 29, 2015
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A majority of public health occupations in health departments around the country pay workers substantially less compared to pay for workers in the same occupations in the private sector, according to new research at Columbia ...
Feb 12, 2024
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Experts from The University of Manchester and The University of Bristol are calling for permanent laws allowing so-called 'pills by post' abortion services to be enacted in Great Britain and the U.S., in order to address ...
Jun 29, 2020
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The latest report from University of Michigan public health researchers studying how COVID-19 affected Michiganders found that the severity of illness or negative impact of the pandemic is strongly linked to where one lives.
Sep 19, 2023
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