A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the American Enterprise Institute found that insurance denials of first attempts to fill prescriptions for ...
My research focuses broadly on optimizing HIV prevention and treatment outcomes for populations most vulnerable to or disproportionately affected by HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and the U.S., including ...
) each reporting more than 200 cases so far this year. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is extremely contagious and is a particular concern for newborns and young infants, who are especially ...
In September 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, or SB8, which banned abortions as early as five weeks after the start of a patient’s last menstrual cycle. The measure effectively banned abortion in the ...
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 ...
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health hosted a media briefing on May 5, 2026, about ticks and the growing threat of Lyme and other tickborne diseases. Cases of Lyme disease have been on ...
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 ...
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that, overall, Baltimore’s Safe Streets violence prevention program is associated with a 42% reduction in ...
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 ...
A new study from the Department of Health Policy and Management reveals that older adults in prison are significantly more likely to experience disabilities, with cognitive impairments being twice as ...
What if a vaccine could reduce your chances of heart attack, stroke, or dementia, and even save you money? It turns out: those vaccines already exist. Researchers are learning that vaccines against ...
The hygiene hypothesis is the idea that kids need to be exposed to germs in order to develop healthy immune systems. We know that many common viruses did not circulate as widely during the pandemic, ...