Over the last ten years, public health campaigns in New York City around smoking, obesity, and HIV underwent a dramatic shift to use fear and disgust to spur behavior change, sometimes with the unintended consequence of stigmatizing ...
May 4, 2015
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State laws banning texting while driving led to significant reductions in the number of teens using their cell phones while behind the wheel, but nearly one-third still admitted to engaging in this risky behavior, according ...
Apr 25, 2015
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A vaccination campaign that almost didn't happen was widely effective in reducing transmission of cholera in the midst of an ongoing outbreak of the disease in rural Haiti.
Mar 13, 2015
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One in five cases of Lassa fever – a disease that kills around 5,000 people a year in West Africa – could be due to human-to-human transmission, with a large proportion of these cases caused by 'super-spreaders', according ...
Jan 15, 2015
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Members of the public in sub-Saharan Africa who are carriers of the hereditary disease sickle cell disease must be educated aggressively through public health campaigns to raise awareness of the risks of parenting offspring ...
Nov 24, 2014
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A majority of obese people in Britain would not describe themselves as "obese", and many would not even describe themselves as "very overweight", according to a Cancer Research UK study published in BMJ Open today.
Nov 13, 2014
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State public health programs could screen many more low-income and uninsured people for colorectal cancer – and save up to four times as many lives – by using stool sample blood tests instead of colonoscopies, finds a ...
Oct 22, 2014
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Though a few Ebola-infected Americans have begun returning home from the epidemic in West Africa, U.S. medical experts believe that there is still little risk that the epidemic will gain hold here. Key questions, however, ...
Aug 14, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have shown that sunscreen cannot be relied upon alone to prevent malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, according to research* published in Nature.
Jun 12, 2014
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Money changes everything. To date, lung, breast, prostate and colorectal cancers have accounted for the largest number of cancer deaths. In response, these cancers currently receive the most research funding from the National ...
May 23, 2014
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