Public Health

About Kerry Dooley Young Kerry Dooley Young (@kdooleyyoung) is AHCJ's core topic leader on patient safety. She has written extensively...

Despite a federal mandate requiring access to early intervention programs (EIP) for children with disabilities, fewer than half of autistic...

About Erica Tricarico Managing Editor Erica Tricarico is a graduate of Howard University and the master’s program in journalism at...

Over the past 21 years of opioid overdose deaths -- from prescription drugs to heroin to synthetic and semisynthetic opioids...

Epidemiologist Dara Mendez, Ph.D., M.P.H., pediatrician Diane Rowley, M.D., epidemiologist Theresa Chapple-McGruder, Ph.D., and epidemiologist Bill Jenkins, Ph.D., who blew...

A far-reaching review of academic papers and reports evaluated 46 proposed "win-win" solutions for reducing human infectious disease burdens and...

What are the chances you will contract Covid-19 on a plane flight? A study led by MIT scholars offers a...

Black people and women with severe heart failure who might be good candidates for surgery to implant a heart-assisting device...

About Karen Blum Karen Blum is AHCJ’s core topic leader on health IT. An independent journalist in the Baltimore area,...

With fires raging from California to Alaska, the 2022 wildfire season is off to a violent start. It's an ominous...