In this week’s installment of Curious Iowa, The Gazette answers a question about the work of county public health departments ...

Despite spending nearly 50% more on healthcare per capita than other high-spending nations, the United States public health ...

By withdrawing from the World Health Organization and overhauling aid, Trump's new executive orders endanger Americans and ...

Withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) diminishes the influence of the U.S. on global health, and leaves the ...

Public health experts say there could be massive implications after President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the ...

As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...

Laws and policies prohibiting the discussion of what the first Trump administration in 2020 labeled “divisive concepts” ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

Your body needs 20 different amino acids to grow and function properly. While all 20 of these are important for your health, only 9 are classified as essential. These are histidine, isoleucine ...

Public health is the medical discipline concerned with the prevention and control of disease through population surveillance and the promotion of healthy behaviours. Strategies used to promote ...