There are well documented risk factors associated with developing substance use disorder across all age groups. A recent study found those risk factors affect age groups differently and proposes a ...

The landscape of HIV prevention has undergone a profound transformation with significant advancements in medical interventions and a deeper understanding of how the virus spreads. These developments ...

As the UK government launches its violence against women and girls strategy, the situation it is seeking to remedy makes for ...

It used to be that the worst fears about aging were getting cancer. Now, the worst fear is developing dementia. Unlike cancer, for which we do have treatments like surgery and chemotherapy, we have no ...

The growing risk to consumers posed by scams begs the need for a government-wide strategy to counter scams, track them accurately and agree on what defines a scam, a new study said. The cost of this ...

Far too many Americans are dying from preventable causes, and each time we make progress it seems like new problems appear. Take the case of opioid overdoses. As we are beginning to get a handle on ...

The FDA has developed a new strategy to prevent the contamination of fresh and frozen berries with viruses such as hepatitis A and norovirus. “Collaboration between regulators, the global berry ...

Construction leaders are reexamining how they manage serious injury and fatality risk. Explore new approaches to SIF identification, assessment, and prevention in modern, complex workforces.

School safety best practices continue to evolve as more research becomes available. For instance, it was once believed that a zero-tolerance approach to bullying would be effective in curbing the ...

New data show sharp rises in gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia, alongside major gaps in testing, treatment, and surveillance ...

Prevailing wisdom has a way of following the prevailing winds and one of the fundamental attributes of winds is that they change. For most of cybersecurity’s existence as a formal discipline, the ...