In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

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

Billed as more than 10 times the scale of previous endeavors, the Truveta Genome Project aims to ensure representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders and other social drivers of health – and ...

NIGERIA’S population is already bursting at its seams leading to immense and deleterious pressures on its socioeconomic health. Yet, alarming projections indicate that a worse fate may befall the ...

The checklist calls for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and controlling cholesterol, blood pressure and blood ...

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

An estimated 3.4 billion people—43% of the world population—had a condition affecting the nervous system in 2021, leading to ...

When Trump was first inaugurated in January 2017, there were about 550,000 homeless people nationwide, according to an annual ...

Popular GLP-1 medications approved for weight loss, diabetes, and heart disease may have untapped potential to reduce the ...

President Trump began his first day in office by signing a series of executive orders reversing many Biden-era policies.

The mental health of the working-age population appears to be getting worse, with the number of NHS prescribed anti-depressants rising 32% in nine years. A report by the Health Foundation looked ...

Any lingering doubts over the feasibility of rolling out population-based cancer registries in low-income and middle-income ...