As sushi has gone mainstream, lower cost suppliers have come into the market offering fishy products.
The massive cohort of young people are more likely to make risky choices and reaching them with public health campaigns requires understanding new media.
New research suggests that assertive Asian-Americans may be penalized for not adhering to racial stereotypes that peg them more as meek followers.
According to the Government Accountability Office, the United States' food supply isn't prepared for a major disaster.
New research in Health Affairs suggests that people in health care should consider more than just the costs and benefits of different courses of treatment.
New research suggests that overweight and obese drivers find it more difficult to buckle up a standard seatbelt.
The globalization of food and public health means the FDA must be everywhere at once.
America's growing wealth gap isn't just an economic problem. It's a public health problem, too.
As sushi's gone mainstream, the supply of raw fish has expanded beyond the traditional cuts to a new product called "scrape."
How harnessing the power of crowds is leading to major medical breakthroughs
Women may no longer need husbands to have children, but that doesn't imply they've given up on men.
Two new studies question the link between food deserts in low-income areas and obesity, but the story is a whole lot more complicated than putting grocery stores in poor neighborhoods.
Despite Michelle Obama's high-profile child obesity campaign, the White House hasn't managed to change the nation's kids' diets.
More than half of all cancer is avoidable. Here, epidemiologist Graham Colditz shares five research-based strategies to stop this disease in its tracks.
Mexico has one of the highest obesity rates in the world, and new research suggests that weight misperception may be the reason why.
Screening women for cervical cancer every single year may do more harm than good.
A study of the Community Asthma Initiative found that the seemingly expensive program more than paid for itself in reduced ER visits and hospitalizations.
Public health researchers continue to probe the consequences of the American natural gas boom.
Researchers in Germany find that mental health practitioners tend to diagnose ADHD using their intuition and unclear rules of thumb, not recognized diagnostic criteria.
The new guidelines for industry aren't what food industry advocates hoped for, but they're better than nothing.