When your doctor asks how often you exercise, do you give her an honest answer? How about when she asks what you've been eating lately? If you've ever stretched the truth, you're not alone.
The Detroit City Council approved an ordinance Tuesday that will make it easier for poor residents to obtain poverty tax exemptions, and therefore avoid home foreclosure.
Nearly 28,000 American children and teens have died because of firearms in the past decade. A new website from a group led by Rebecca Cunningham and Marc Zimmerman aims to change that by helping researchers, health care providers, and others tackle the prevention of youth firearm injuries as a public health issue.
There's one possible reason so many Americans, especially those living in inner cities, have high blood pressure: lead exposure. That's according to new research led by Sung Kyun Park, associate professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences.
Robust environmental monitoring should be used as the world approaches global eradication of polio, say researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health who recently studied the epidemiology of the 2013 silent polio outbreak in Rahat, Israel.
Edited by Michigan Public Health faculty, the special supplement of Health Promotion Practice (HPP) covers findings from nine years of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-sponsored Food & Fitness Initiative.