As one of the world’s largest funders of global health, America’s step back may curtail efforts to provide lifesaving health ...

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term included several executive orders and actions that will be detrimental ...

The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American's access to ...

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

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

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

One of President Donald Trump's executive orders offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that could have a ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Through this project, team members uncovered five lessons on how to transform a national public health database: Making sure ...

The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO could weaken the country’s ability to respond to public health crises like pandemics and ...

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 ...

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