Public Health & Medicine

Federal officials will invest $282 million in funding to ensure a smooth transition to the three-digit suicide hotline 988, with $177 million going toward expanding operations and telephone infrastructure and the other $109 million will increase staff at call centers. Since 2005, the line has received over 20 million calls, 2.4 million last year alone.

Lack of access and infrastructure, stigma and isolation intensify a mental health crisis in agricultural communities.

Omicron is now the most common variant among new Covid cases in the U.S., accounting for nearly three-quarters of new infections.

Research shows an increased potential for spread through aerosols.

Pfizer and BioNTech are testing a third dose of a Covid vaccine for young children. The third dose is a lower amount than the adult doses.

Omicron will likely become the dominant strain across the majority of the US by Christmas but Prizer's new Covid pill offers a glimmer of hope in staving off severe illness.

The human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent six potentially lethal malignancies, but inoculation is meeting with rising resistance from parents.

The typical patient is already a mother; is poor; is unmarried and in her late 20s; and has some college education.

Science can find a cure for our diseases, but not for our societal ills.

How could that change our understanding about, for starters, chronic disease, aging and obesity?

The long read: Medical research and practice have long assumed a narrow definition of the ‘default’ human, badly compromising the care of anyone outside that category. How can this be fixed?

Labels like "nonessential" are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.

In Tennessee, where the governor allows families to ignore school mask mandates, some parents are making excruciating calculations each morning about whether to send their children to school.

A new CDC study found that the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22%, compared to 19% before the pandemic. It also found that expected annual weight gain ranged from 5 to 15 pounds.

Driving kills as many Americans each year as guns do. Experts say that’s preventable.

The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.

“Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer.

This report examines attitudes and views of parents as children head back to school amidst the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant. Nearly half of parents of children ages 12-17, who ar…

Despite the immigrant mortality advantage and the increasing share of the population born abroad, relatively little is known about how immigration has…

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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Matt, Dara, Jerusalem, and German use Matt’s last Tuesday episode to discuss life expectancy in the US. They explore paternalistic policy decisions, the misnomer of “deaths of despair,” and the longevity of The Weeds. US life expectancy is compared to that of European and Asian nations, and the US numbers are disaggregated and examined up close.

For decades, the law has sought to restrain nursing homes from trying to control the behavior of dementia patients with antipsychotic drugs, which are known to have adverse health effects.