Public Health

Opioid misuse and drug overdose deaths pose a major public health crisis in the United States. Studies suggest that altering drug supplies could help alleviate the crisis. This study aims to evaluate the county-level...

Recent studies have identified the FTO genotype as accounting for about 2.7% of the variation in body mass index (BMI). This study aims to investigate the effect of FTO genotype on weight loss after physical activity,...

Since coffee is one of the most consumed beverages across the globe, even the slightest of health outcomes could have a population-wide effect. Besides, the health outcomes of coffee consumption have remained to be...

Antidepressant use is generally not linked with changes in body weight, but some recent studies have suggested a positive association between long-term antidepressant use and weight gain. This study aims to examine the long-term...

High blood pressure increases the risk of cardiovascular events and organ damage in people regardless of age. But in the case of older old people, high blood pressure is found to increase the risk of mortality significantly....

We know a lot about what we don’t know Five months in, and the shape of the Covid-19 pandemic remains elusive, with the lack of clarity extending to what the disease looks like, who has it, who is infectious, who is...

AMA says cutting funding during a pandemic ’is not in the U.S. interests’ President Donald J. Trump’s statement on April 14 that he was going to halt funding of the the World Health Organization (WHO) because...

Massachusetts is launching an effort to reach everyone in the state who may have the coronavirus and get them tested and into isolation or treatment if needed. The ambitious goal is to stop — not just slow — the...

America’s health care workers are dying. In some states, medical staff account for as many as 20% of known coronavirus cases. They tend to patients in hospitals, treating them, serving them food and cleaning their rooms....

The number of health care workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is likely far higher than the reported tally of 9,200, and U.S. officials say they have no comprehensive way to count those who lose their lives...