public health

"The health care costs attributable to vaping are already substantial and likely to increase." So concluded the authors of a study just published in the journal Tobacco Control.

At just three months old and with no warning, my older brother—my parents' first child—died in his sleep at the babysitter's house, a tragic case of a very rare condition called sudden infant d

“The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social inequities that rival biological inequities in disease exposure and severity.” [1]

Inexperienced journalists commonly make a mistake known as “burying the lede,” or hiding the most crucial aspects of a story underneath lots of distracting and l

There's an odd disconnect between the way we talk about the causes of obesity and the solutions we employ to help people manage their weight.

When I first told my doctor that I took up vaping as a smoking-cessation tool in 2012, I expected a finger-wagging lecture about the dangers of nicotine. But that's not the response I got.

If you're a parent, the chances are good that you know at least one other parent who worries about everything: toxic baby food, pesticides, stranger danger, drug use, COVID—you name it, they're worried it's going to kill their children.

“For many people, regardless of size, stepping on the scale at the doctor’s office can be a triggering, harmful experience,” SELF magazine reported late last month.

Evidence confirming the relative safety of vaping continues to build.

Post-COVID-19, the once-ferocious debate surrounding genetically engineered (GE) crops seems like a fading memory, especially with the anti-GMO movement r