public health

Drug legalization is supposed to spur several critical improvements in public health. As more states legalize recreational marijuana, we're beginning ...

Social media has been awash in panic as one influencer after another wrongly warns prospective parents against the routine (and ...

Politics has infiltrated every facet of modern life, including medicine. And some Americans seem increasingly inclined to make important health ...

E-cigarettes burst onto the scene nearly 20 years, disrupting the cigarette industry and leaving anti-smoking advocates uncertain about how to ...

With illicit opioids still killing thousands of Americans each year, some public health advocates are pushing a radical solution to ...

To hear RFK, Jr. talk about medical school, you may think doctors enter health care oblivious to basic facts about ...

The harder the government cracks down on a drug, the more deadly its illicit replacement that emerges from the black ...

Depending on whom you ask, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent a significant step forward for public health—or they're ...

There's a dangerous mismatch between our biology and the tech-saturated world we inhabit—and it might be killing us. That's the ...

Widely used as a battlefield anesthetic in the later stages of the Vietnam War, ketamine has emerged as a key ...

Enjoying delicious food is a fundamental part of the human experience. Few of us would deny the enjoyment we get ...

US obesity rates are falling from a record high after steadily climbing since the 1960s, dropping to 37 percent this ...

RFK, Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) coalition has built its platform on the concept of health freedom, a belief ...

The science community faces an existential crisis as thousands of studies are retracted and dozens of peer-reviewed journals are forced ...

Buoyed by sensationalist reporters eager to write alarming headlines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly hyped a dramatic "epidemic" of ...

How far are we willing to go to slow climate change? The list of proposed solutions runs the gamut from ...

A few months ago, a law firm emailed one of us (Cameron) asking for help promoting their litigation against baby ...

Many scientists treat the anti-vaccine movement as a collection of lepers—a group of malcontents to be ignored and ostracized in ...

The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...

As an increasing number of US states begin to liberalize their drug laws, allowing recreational use of marijuana and even ...

America's ferocious battles over food safety and nutrition are often driven by politics and other ideological considerations rather than cold, ...

The ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. has fueled intense speculation about how politics influences vaccine hesitancy. With over 1,200 ...

The MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement has big plans. "We are leading the charge to transform America’s approach to ...

There's a little-known fact the MAHA coalition would prefer to keep quiet: pesticides are essential to protect public health and ...

Ice cream sales and drownings increase significantly during summer. Although these two outcomes are closely connected, they probably occur in ...

With a growing number of US states legalizing marijuana use, scientists and policymakers are once again engaged in a pitched ...

Earlier this month, two Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a toxic fungus that infects important food crops, ...