Virtually zero.’ That’s a reasonable estimate of the probability that public health authorities in the foreseeable future will successfully curb the worldwide epidemics of obesity…
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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 states saw increases in overdose deaths resulting from the abuse of heroin and…
Governments around the world consider antimicrobial-resistant bacteria a major and growing threat to public health. In 2017, many more people could begin dying from common…
Five years ago, when Lankenau Medical Center was confronted with evidence that it was serving the unhealthiest county in Pennsylvania, the hospital decided to embrace…
With the alarming news that US life expectancy rates went down last year, here are the causes. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans could…
The life expectancy for Americans has declined for the first time in 23 years. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the…
The population of Denmark is roughly 5.5 million people, and that’s how many women are expected to die worldwide from cancer by 2030 – a…
A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was…
Dec. 4 to Dec. 10 is "National Influenza Vaccination Week" and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pushing hard for children and…
There's something the farm lobby doesn't want you to know: how much their use of antibiotics in livestock poses a risk to you and your…
Food poisoning cases linked to eating oysters and other shellfish from New England waters have jumped from five cases in 2000 to 147 in 2013.…
Within the first year of life, the CDC recommends that children receive a total of 29 vaccinations, many of which contain the adjuvant aluminum, a…