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This brief draws on data from various sources. Data on income and savings of Medicare beneficiaries, including the share of…

In 2024, over 61 million adults in the U.S. experienced a mental illness and deaths due to suicide, gun violence,…

When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this…

Private Coverage Despite high rates of employment, noncitizen immigrants have limited access to employer-sponsored coverage. Although most noncitizen immigrant adults…

The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working…

Introduction One in four children aged 18 and under living in the U.S. has at least one immigrant parent. Policies…

As of 2024, there were 24 million noncitizen immigrants, including lawfully present and undocumented immigrants, living in the U.S. Noncitizen…

Delegates and the secretariat huddle to negotiate the complex legal text of resolutions on Argentina’s withdrawal notification. After a full…

IntroductionIntermittent fasting (IF) has become one of the most popular dietary trends in recent years.Praised for its potential to promote…

An angry crowd set fire to Ebola isolation tents outside a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ituri…

A difference-in-difference, quasi-experimental design was used to estimate a “treatment effect” (PEPFAR), based on comparison to a control group (the…

May 14 Rachel Spears reads the week’s news: The Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funding if hospitals don’t get in line with its new dietary…

Purpose: To define sex as an immutable binary biological classification and remove recognition of the concept of gender identity, including in…

World Health Assembly delegates debate the newly adopted Global Health Architecture Reform in Committee B. The 79th World Health Assembly…

Factors beyond individual lifestyle decisions continue to shape health–including Three emerging threats to health: the commercial, digital, and climate determinants…

Egypt, leading the resolution as part of a four-text package that also covered teleradiology, pharmacovigilance and precision medicine, stressed “the…