This summer marked good news for traffic safety and injury prevention, as statistics showed an overall drop in U.S. traffic fatalities. But the announcement came with a tragic downside: Motorcycle-related deaths rose by more than 6 percent in 2007.
Advanced geographic information systems are making their mark within every public health discipline. The technology is used in all 50 state health departments, most local departments and most ministries of health worldwide.
Despite widespread and ongoing campaigns designed to encourage more Americans to get vaccinated against seasonal influenza, a recent survey found physicians do not communicate with patients about influenza risks.
Although vaccination rates for children are at an all-time high in the United States, measles cases are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of U.S. measles cases among children whose parents rejected vaccination.
Cocaine and methamphetamine use among young adults is on the decline, federal data show, but abuse of prescription pain relievers is increasing.
As national "green" building programs are designed for construction and remodeling projects that are environmentally friendly, a recent report examines the public health benefits of such home-building methods.
They struggle to produce the foods that can keep Americans healthy, but rising health care costs are making it increasingly difficult for U.S. farmers and ranchers to keep their own families healthy. Down country lanes dotted with corn and cattle, skyrocketing premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs are causing financial woes for nearly a quarter of U.S. farm and ranch families.
Briefs on mad cow disease, country-of-origin labeling, tobacco-related cancers and more.