An analysis of 11 states that removed concealed carry licensing that mandated firearm training or proficiency requirements suggests that rates of violent gun assaults increase 32 percent, according to ...

This meeting will be hybrid. In-person meeting location will be in the Thomas Conference Room (2-205) at the Welch Center (2024 E. Monument St). Please contact the meeting coordinator for Zoom details ...

The CDC also reports estimates of both medical and non-medical exemptions to vaccination requirements. While medical exemptions remained stable at 0.2% in 2024-25, non-medical exemptions reached an ...

Medical misinformation has the potential to negatively impact health outcomes for people who have been marginalized. This reality became all too clear during the COVID-19 pandemic when medical ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that 317 juveniles under age 18 were shot by police between 2015 and 2020, one-third of them fatally. The ...

Cass Crifasi and Alex McCourt answer frequently asked questions about regulating the public carry of firearms and the risks associated with permitless carry and Stand Your Ground laws.

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 ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...

The U.S. has reported more than 1,600 cases of measles to date in 2025, the largest number of cases since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Effectively responding to a measles outbreak ...

among girls by age 15 years was 21% in 2024, up from 16% in 2020. In the WHO African Region, which carries a disproportionate cervical cancer burden, first-dose coverage among girls by age 15 ...

On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, communities exist alongside some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical production plants. Since the 1980s, the area has ...

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 ...