Public Health

I became hooked on ID during my parasitology module in medical school.

President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from WHO, complaining that the agency has unfairly demanded too much in funding.

Large floods over the last 2 decades corresponded with increased rates of death from injuries and other causes vs. normal conditions in the U.S., a retrospective analysis published in Nature Medicine revealed.

Among adults in California, those who identified as multiracial had greater lifetime and current asthma prevalences vs. the monoracial populations they shared identities with, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

The likelihood for obstructive sleep apnea went down by 74% among adults with optimal vs. insufficient healthy lifestyle behaviors, according to results published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

In a set of healthy school-aged children, several lung function measures, including FEV1 and FVC, improved with classroom plus bedroom air purification, according to results published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Despite being decades apart, the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics shared many lessons that can be applied to future pandemics and health emergencies, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, and his former chief of staff wrote in a new paper.

Splash pads have been linked to more than 10,000 cases of preventable waterborne illness caused by bacteria or viruses over a 26-year period, according to a CDC study.

Cervical cancer mortality among U.S. women younger than 25 years declined by 62% between 2013 and 2021, a finding largely attributed to the wide availability of HPV vaccination for this age cohort, researchers reported in JAMA.

I stood off to the side watching a physician and patient, in a long narrow room designed for testing visual acuity. I was 16 years old, shadowing at a local hospital. It was right after Valentine’s Day.