public health

The media trope “if it bleeds, it leads” is at play in undermining accurate messages with respect to the status of vaccine compliance. A fear-based technique intended to capture the audience by news outlets is, sadly, a tried-and-true one.

After a, thankfully, transient health scare, Oprah Winfrey offers some sound advice: “Number one? Don't Google your symptoms.”

Yesterday, most of the nation received a test of the following alert on our cell phones:

Given the preponderance of pink bows and media or community saturation of the subject of breast cancer in the month of October, especially, it is not unusual for us to get awareness fatigue.

Chronic pain is a major public health challenge. That's not just because it is estimated to cost over half a trillion dollars annually in medical costs, disability programs, and lost productivity.

On the verge of a “national emergency,” regulatory experts from the National Health Service (NHS) Improvement body just released their latest review which reveals a crisis in workforce shortag

Anti-vaxxers insist that measles is just a harmless childhood infection. After the Disneyland outbreak, anti-vaxxers derided public health concerns by referring to it as "Mickey Mouse Measles." The facts indicate otherwise.

If somebody invented a device that could save the lives of millions of smokers, should society encourage its use?

One of the biggest problems with journalism -- particularly science journalism -- is the fact that many people who practice it aren't qualified to do so.

Everybody hates heat waves. We hate them so much, in fact, that heat waves have a measurable detrimental impact on our society.