Tag: Public health
Eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging, new research shows
Moul Dey, South Dakota State University
Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while...
SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids...
Jenalee Doom, University of Denver
About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental...
COVID-19 vaccines for kids are mired in uncertainty amid conflicting federal guidance
David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids...
RFK Jr’s shakeup of vaccine advisory committee raises worries about scientific...
Santosh Kumar Gautam, University of Notre Dame
On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a...
Data on sexual orientation and gender is critical to public health...
John R. Blosnich, University of Southern California
As part of the Trump administration’s efforts aimed at stopping diversity, equity...
Teens say they can access firearms at home, even when parents...
Katherine G. Hastings, University of British Columbia and Rebeccah Sokol, University of Michigan
More than half of U.S. teens...
RFK Jr. says annual COVID-19 shots no longer advised for healthy...
Libby Richards, Purdue University
On May 27, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that...
Calorie counts on menus and food labels may not help consumers...
Deidre Popovich, Texas Tech University
Knowing the calorie content of foods does not help people understand which foods are...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
