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

President Trump’s executive order for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization could greatly impact the nation’s ability to track and respond to global disease threats.

The Trump administration told federal public health agencies like the CDC that they are not to communicate health messages ...

You've probably heard that human beings are "social animals." That doesn't just mean we tend to interact with each other; it ...

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

The Alabama Department of Public Health issued a statement about its current investigation into certain “adverse events” ...

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 ...

Ground zero cancer refers to cancers associated with the material people were exposed to after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Dust from Ground Zero contained high levels of ...

She championed mental health issues (as she had in Georgia ... Carter continued teaching Sunday School in Plains, open to the public – and still preparing carefully before each class.