Susan Anenberg is a professor and chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is also the director ...

Chemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as Cancer Alley. October 15, 2013. Giles Clarke/Getty Images On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New ...

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health has released a new policy roadmap to assist Michigan legislators as they seek to improve state law and ...

According to the study, by 2034, the number of U.S. adults aged 65 and older will, for the first time in history, exceed the of children under age 18, leading to an unprecedented demand for LTSS. LTSS ...

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 ...

In 1971, the FDA approved the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which combined three vaccines that had been approved previously—in 1963, 1967, and 1969, respectively. The vaccine has proven safe ...

As with any drug or medical product, when we decide to take a vaccine, we want to feel confident that its benefits outweigh any possible risks. Scientists and public health researchers take those ...

A little movement could help prevent dementia, even for frail older adults, suggests a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers found that ...

Ellis Robinson, assistant research engineer in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, uses a GasScouter backpack to hunt for “fugitive methane” leaking from large transmission lines.

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.

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 ...