Children experience more injuries, stress and even burnout when they specialize in one sport
The rate of injury for single-sport adolescents is far higher than for other kids who play a variety of sports.
The rate of injury for single-sport adolescents is far higher than for other kids who play a variety of sports.
Since nutrition standards were strengthened in 2010, eating at school provides many students better diet quality compared…
An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how…
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes…
As you get older, you’re at higher risk of severe infection and your immunity declines faster after vaccination.
Local governments are increasingly buying – and forgiving – their residents’ medical debt.
People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present…
Salt is an essential nutrient that has helped civilizations flavor and preserve their foods for millennia. Too much dietary…
Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position…
I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been…
Once available, Opill will be the most effective form of nonprescription birth control on the market. But you should still…
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
Although the US banned lead-based paint in 1978, homes built before then commonly contain lead paint.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed tax credit is part of a trend toward public support for family caregiving.
Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization…
Americans have long been divided over adopting permanent standard versus permanent daylight saving time. But support for…
In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by…
Whether you’re ascending to high altitudes for casual travel or for adventure tourism, there are specific strategies to…
A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the…
Research shows that rapid antigen tests are performing as well at detecting the most recent dominant variants as they did…