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 ...

The team quantified the disease burden associated with exposure to the pollutant. Experts calculate the staggering impact of ...

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

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