Medical debt is associated with deferred dental care, medical care, and mental health care, even among people with health insurance, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins ...

Over the past two decades, the United States overdose landscape has undergone several distinct phases shaped by changes in the drug supply and prescribing practices. In the 1990s and early 2000s, ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health has released a new roadmap to ...

among girls by age 15 years was 21% in 2024, up from 16% in 2020. In the WHO African Region, which carries a disproportionate cervical cancer burden, first-dose coverage among girls by age 15 ...

The federally recommended vaccine schedule for American kids abruptly changed Monday when the Department of Health and Human Services removed several vaccines from the list of shots recommended for ...

The U.S. fertility rate—the number of children born to women of childbearing age—reached a record low in 2024. The average American woman between ages 15 and 44 gave birth to less than two children, ...

Gun violence is a public health epidemic that affects the well-being and public safety of all Americans. In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows, 46,728 individuals ...

Two people are standing in line at the grocery store. One has a cart full of instant ramen, hot dogs, ice cream, and soda, and the other has a cart full of whole grain bread, breakfast cereal, creamy ...

“By illustrating how costs escalate with outbreak size, this analysis reinforces the substantive burden declining MMR coverage can place on health budgets in the United States and how early response ...

Since 1991, when the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns, infections with hepatitis B virus in children and teens have decreased by 99%.

Every year, typically at the end of January, teams of canvassers conduct a vital survey to count the number of people experiencing homelessness in America. This survey informs the U.S. Department of ...

On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, communities exist alongside some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical production plants. Since the 1980s, the area has ...