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 ...

The surge in the “medical freedom” movement has thrust the tension between individual liberty and public health into the ...

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

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

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) wants to emphasize the importance of global partnerships in addressing health threats that impact all of us, as Americans and global citizens.

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 ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

This post was updated Jan. 16 at 8:32 p.m. “Beyond the Statute” is a series created by Sierra Benayon-Abraham, an assistant ...

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 ...