With plastics breaking down into microscopic particles that enter the food chain, researchers are investigating how they may ...

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently proposed the Impact of Research and Innovation Scale (IRIS), a scale with which to measure the impactfulness of the effects of biomedical, public ...

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli met in recent weeks with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’76 and National Institutes of Health Director Jay ...

Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health is bracing for the possibility of losing as much as half of its federal research funding in the coming years, some $100 million annually, prompting the ...

The Trump administration is looking to slash an office at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) whose critics ...

In this month’s Digital Health Research Roundup, Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa writes about contraception, drawing on randomized ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of highly stable artificial chemicals known for their resistance to ...

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump ...

Many babies enter the world with silent metabolic or genetic conditions. Today, standard newborn screening can check for some ...

The findings, published in Communications Medicine, challenge the long-standing reliance on body-mass index (BMI) as a ...

Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while ...

Public health is what a nation does together as a society to create and ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. 1 Periodically, circumstances call for a dramatic shift in the ways in ...