Published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, the study aimed to provide robust insights into adolescent mental health trajectories in two different cultural contexts by comparing large samples ...

Experts explain how a sense of control — or lack of it — can majorly influence our response to stressful situations ...

The future of medicine is being shaped by a confluence of factors at play. If there are worries galore around drug resistant ...

Malaria is rare in the US — for now. But public health experts warn that federal cuts in foreign aid could slow the fight ...

US research has been under political pressure for some time. Examples include regulatory overreach on federal stem-cell research informed more by religion than scientific arguments, a growing vaccine ...

But foreign aid is not charity. It is the United States’ insurance policy, protecting us from bird flu, ebola, violent terrorism, illegal migration and political instability. USAID provides 200,000 ...

Countries, including the United States, cutting down funding for life-saving global health projects could jeopardize vaccination programs that protect children and adults from deadly diseases, the ...

Conflict still occurs over shared waters; however, since the late 1800s, and particularly since the end of World War II, cooperation has been the dominant interaction between countries in the world’s ...

In an unprecedented show of unity, more than 47 million health professionals, patients, advocates, representatives from civil society organizations, and individuals worldwide have signed a resounding ...

The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer offers what experts call an unprecedented look at the world’s lakes, rivers and wetlands, ...

In 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated, marking one of the greatest public health triumphs. This ...