First introduced in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero is a road safety strategy that says that no deaths or serious injuries are acceptable. Since then, the strategy has been adopted in multiple ...

* The data presented in the maps are compiled from official sources, including state and county health departments and additional county-level news releases or news articles, and represent ...

Chemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as Cancer Alley. October 15, 2013. Giles Clarke/Getty Images On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New ...

In 1971, the FDA approved the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which combined three vaccines that had been approved previously—in 1963, 1967, and 1969, respectively. The vaccine has proven safe ...

The hygiene hypothesis is the idea that kids need to be exposed to germs in order to develop healthy immune systems. We know that many common viruses did not circulate as widely during the pandemic, ...

Shortcomings in the Baltimore region’s public transit system disproportionately affect low-income and minority neighborhoods, according to a new report from the Department of Environmental Health and ...

As COVID-19 outbreaks continue to flare up across the U.S., the need for coronavirus testing remains urgent. Individuals rely on test results to guide their medical treatment and decisions on whether ...

As with any drug or medical product, when we decide to take a vaccine, we want to feel confident that its benefits outweigh any possible risks. Scientists and public health researchers take those ...

One of the best tools for preventing severe complications from COVID infection is the prescription antiviral drug Paxlovid. But not nearly as many people who could benefit from it are being prescribed ...

According to a recent Lancet commentary much of the healthcare industry’s reliance on disposable materials is born out of fear and efficiency, with minimal evidence to support the superiority of some ...

The U.S. is experiencing its sharpest decline in life expectancy in more than a century—since the eras of World War I and the Great Influenza. What happened? Until 2014 life expectancy at birth in the ...

COVID-19 uncovered catastrophic weaknesses in the international community’s ability to respond to a pandemic, from inequities in vaccine and test distribution to insufficient international ...