Tag: Public Health

Researchers from Florida International University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine are part of an international team that has discovered a ...

Arlington, Va., April 16, 2019 - Outpatient healthcare providers inappropriately prescribed antibiotics to 40 percent of patients in a major ...

Plague is an endemic disease in Madagascar. Each year there is a seasonal upsurge between September and April, especially in ...

COLLEGE STATION -- Texas A&M AgriLife has become the fifth and newest member of the NutriRECS international consortium. The goal ...

Long-term study of a large Kenyan community shows that childhood pneumococcal vaccination can be highly effective in a tropical African ...

UMass Amherst biostatistician designed study that describes national sex ratio imbalancesCredit: UMass Amherst An international team of researchers, led by ...

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Viruses without a preventative vaccine or treatment option pose a looming threat. But for viruses ...

New study suggests administering antimalarial drugs to entire populations could help reduce infection so even untreated individuals are protected, but ...

Involuntary staying, a type of housing trap, is a common experience among people living on housing estates, since around 1 ...

Child welfare study examines challenges among therapists in contracted private agenciesCredit: Florida Atlantic University More than 1.2 million children in ...

Efforts to discover novel compounds against Chagas disease see early successes -- part of Atomwise's Artificial Intelligence Molecular Screen (AIMS) ...

Stopping the vaccine could lead to rates of pneumonia and pneumococcal disease returning to pre-vaccine levels in 10 years Co-led ...

Indicators of despair--depression, suicidal ideation, drug use and alcohol abuse--are rising among Americans in their late 30s and early 40s ...

Rutgers-led study may lead to improved breeding of corn and other cropsCredit: Hugo Dooner/Waksman Institute of Microbiology Pollen genes mutate ...

Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--If heroin is coffee, fentanyl is espresso. Just as a miniscule cup of espresso can hype you ...

Chicago Booth researchers find diets improve when tapping adolescents' desire to rebel; teenage boys cut back junk food purchases by ...

First-of-its-kind research network seeks to inform standards, policy and reimbursement strategies as telehealth adoption increases throughout the U.S. AURORA, Colo. ...

Results from a large clinical trial indicate that patients with rheumatoid arthritis are likely to experience the same level of ...

Results have implications for cellular responses to hepatitis, dengue and ZikaCredit: Daisuke Yamane, D.V.M., Ph.D., Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical ...

Tokyo - The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) attempted from 2000 to 2015 produced mixed and debatable results. But ...