Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor Department of Nutritional Sciences School of Human Ecology College of Natural Sciences The University of Texas at Austin ...

The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary ...

Calling all students who started Summer of 2025 and Term One of 2025! We’re excited to share that sign ups are open now for our upcoming Middle East Baltimore Tours with Dr. Marisela B. Gomez. This on ...

Dr. Gupta is the Florence Sabin Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and she holds a joint appointment in the ...

Jeffrey Drope, PhD, discusses economic policymaking and how to make taxation a more compelling policy option for policymakers during this Innovations in Tobacco Control lecture presented by the ...

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 ...

The hygiene hypothesis is the idea that kids need to be exposed to germs in order to develop healthy immune systems. We know that many common viruses did not circulate as widely during the pandemic, ...

Following decades of development, the United States’ first mRNA vaccines hit the market in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, saving millions of lives and allowing the nation to adeptly ...

The legal precedent for mandatory vaccinations dates back to a 1905 Supreme Court case after a smallpox outbreak in Massachusetts. Once a COVID vaccine or vaccines are made available, could states ...

For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. has recorded homegrown malaria cases. The country sees about 2,000–2,500 malaria cases each year linked to travel to malaria-endemic areas such as sub-Saharan ...

One of the best tools for preventing severe complications from COVID infection is the prescription antiviral drug Paxlovid. But not nearly as many people who could benefit from it are being prescribed ...

Syphilis cases in the U.S. are skyrocketing even as rates for other STIs like gonorrhea and chlamydia are flat or declining. Alarming numbers released by the CDC are the latest marker in a ...