Review of hundreds of internal FDA documents obtained under FOIA finds FDA generally followed cautious and evidence-based ...

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 ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Americans with type 1 diabetes had overweight or obesity at almost the same high rates observed in ...

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Just a generation or so ago, tens of thousands of people in the U.S.—mainly children—were afflicted by paralytic poliovirus. In 1955, an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which contained a “killed” ...

The U.S. has one of the lowest tuberculosis incidence rates in the world. So when there are outbreaks of this bacterial infection, like the one reported last month in Kansas, they get our attention.

COVID-19 uncovered catastrophic weaknesses in the international community’s ability to respond to a pandemic, from inequities in vaccine and test distribution to insufficient international ...

A new study published in December in JAMIA Open and led by Department of Health Policy and Management researchers including Elham Hatef, MD, MPH, and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, aims to address ...

In the early days of the pandemic, clinicians began to treat COVID-19 patients with the plasma of people who have recovered from COVID-19. The idea was that protective antibodies in the plasma would ...

At the end of March, the KP.2 variant was causing about 4% of infections in the U.S., according to the CDC, while its parental strain, JN.1, was causing over 50% of infections at that time. As of ...

A recent study by Michael Fang, PhD, MHS and Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH found that adults with diabetes younger than 65 were likely to ration insulin use due to out-of-pocket costs. The findings were ...

A recent study led by researchers in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society (HBS) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzes the latest marketing trends for oral nicotine ...