Salmonella infections are a major public health issue in the United States, causing over 1.3 million illnesses annually. These infections are a leading cause of foodborne illness, often traced back to raw or undercooked poultry meat and eggs.

Using AI, BU researchers found that the vast majority of social media posts didn’t include health labels warning of the harms of flavored nicotine

Air pollution, high temperatures, and risk factors such as obesity and high blood pressure are driving global increases in stroke, research suggests.

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), in collaboration with the World Health Organization and other partners conducted a comprehensive review of Chagas...

Deadly synthetic opioids have been detected in Australian wastewater for the first time, an international survey, led by UQ researchers, has found.

A new type of ‘vaccine scepticism’ has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University, who examined a nine-million-word corpus of tweets looking at vaccine comparisons and evaluations.

Low vitamin D may increase your risk of being hospitalised with COVID-19









UK and Australian scientists say having low levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of hospitalisation with COVID

While 42 states require public school students to take a sexual education course that covers at least one topic within this subject between kindergarten and high school, only 19 states mandate that this instruction be medically accurate—and 5 of those…

In 2019, seven county correctional facilities (jails) in Massachusetts initiated pilot
programs to provide all Food and Drug Administration–approved medications for opioid
use disorder (MOUD). This...

An innovative study mapped preterm births, low birth weights and infant mortality to municipal water wells downstream from PFAS-contaminated sites. The results show the high cost of PFAS harm.

Tdap–IPV vaccination during pregnancy induces antibodies that are transferred across
the placenta to reach the upper airway mucosa of the infant and could contribute to
local protection. Although maternally derived antibodies modulate pertussis toxin-specific…

The disease has always been tricky to define. A study from Mass General Brigham suggests the healthcare system is missing millions of long COVID cases.