A: It turns out, how we describe risks REALLY matters and helps us better understand our healthcare choices. Read below for a review of how risk is calculated and communicated (and can be used for ...

August is National Wellness Month, and it is a reminder that while our health is influenced by factors like access to healthcare, affordable nutritious food, and safe places to live and exercise, the ...

Q: How do sex chromosomes determine our reproductive body parts? A: Biologic sex is much less straightforward than most of us have been taught. Humans come in a variety of combinations of body parts ...

Your iron supplement dose depends on how much iron you need and how well you tolerate iron. Taking your iron pill every other day and combining it with vitamin C may help you get the most benefit from ...

TL;DR: The WHO does a lot of crucial global public health work. They help countries communicate during disease outbreaks. Their researchers and scientists provide best practices for all sorts of ...

Testing your blood for PFAS (“forever chemicals”) is not recommended for most people. However, for the small fraction of people with a history of high PFAS exposure, the potential benefits of testing ...

Q: If an unvaccinated person gets blood from a vaccinated person, will the vaccine transfer? A: No. If an unvaccinated person gets a blood transfusion from a vaccinated donor, the unvaccinated person ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is a federal advisory committee that develops recommendations for vaccination in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

For many Gen Xers, unprotected kiddie pool days are now showing up as sunspots, wrinkles, and for some of us, skin cancer. Gen Zers face the same UV risks, but that doesn’t mean they’ll always listen.

The anecdotal fallacy occurs when people use their limited personal experience to make sweeping conclusions about a given topic. It is an exceedingly common fallacy to commit, and nearly everyone has ...

Kelly has a passion for psychiatric epidemiology, and her research interests include psychopharmacology, behavioral health, social determinants of mental health outcomes, and psychopathology.

Confounders (or confounding variables) are factors that are associated with both the “cause” and “effect” (or exposure and outcome) in a potential cause-and-effect relationship. If ignored, they can ...