Health

Only about 5 percent of health impact assessments in the United States have examined federal policies, partly due to challenges in studying national programs. The Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, broke ground with a report it released last month that analyzed the effects of proposed nutrition... Read More

The recently reported outbreak of a deadly new type of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia in Hangzhou, China, has once again raised alarm around the world about the growing specter of an untreatable superbug. While not yet identified outside of China, it is likely just a matter of time. Read More

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014. About 95 percent of rural schools participate in the National School Lunch... Read More

An ongoing outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg infection linked to contact with cattle has left 46 people sick in 14 states, 15 of whom are younger than 5. The cases have been linked to contact with cattle, in particular male calves born to dairy cows, with some of the patients reportedly falling ill after their calves became sick. The affected cattle have been traced back to... Read More

Appalachia is defined by a rich cultural heritage and a mountainous landscape crisscrossed by thousands of rivers and streams, resources that can be harnessed to develop sectors such as tourism and recreation. However, the region is still beset by economic strains that affect the health of its people. A study published in the journal Health Affairs in August shows that life expectancy in... Read More

Only about 5 percent of health impact assessments in the United States have examined federal policies, partly due to challenges in studying national programs. The Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, broke ground with a report it released last month that analyzed the effects of proposed nutrition... Read More

The recently reported outbreak of a deadly new type of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia in Hangzhou, China, has once again raised alarm around the world about the growing specter of an untreatable superbug. While not yet identified outside of China, it is likely just a matter of time. Read More

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014. About 95 percent of rural schools participate in the National School Lunch... Read More

An ongoing outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg infection linked to contact with cattle has left 46 people sick in 14 states, 15 of whom are younger than 5. The cases have been linked to contact with cattle, in particular male calves born to dairy cows, with some of the patients reportedly falling ill after their calves became sick. The affected cattle have been traced back to... Read More

Appalachia is defined by a rich cultural heritage and a mountainous landscape crisscrossed by thousands of rivers and streams, resources that can be harnessed to develop sectors such as tourism and recreation. However, the region is still beset by economic strains that affect the health of its people. A study published in the journal Health Affairs in August shows that life expectancy in... Read More

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it will create a digital platform allowing researchers to share data, ideas, and insights to spur the discovery of innovative new antibiotics needed in the battle against the growing global threat of drug-resistant bacteria, or superbugs. Read More

WASHINGTON—Wider use of evidence-based food safety interventions on farms and feedlots would significantly reduce the risk of people getting sick from contaminated meat and poultry, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The report, “Food Safety From Farm to Fork,” examines potential means to prevent foodborne illnesses by investing in strategies to... Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts announces 22 exceptional early-career researchers as Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. Each scholar will receive four years of flexible funding to pursue foundational research. Read More

Ten pioneering postdoctoral scientists from Latin America will each be awarded two years of funding to conduct research at laboratories and academic institutions in the United States. The 2017 fellows are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, and their research interests range from the design of mosquito control tools to combat the spread of malaria to how obesity, cancer, and... Read More

The work of the 2017 class is investigating several promising avenues to slow or stop the development of cancer, including research on how to destroy leukemia cells and how cancer cells evade destruction by drug therapies. Read More

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How schooling affects health over a lifetime. Read More

Factors influencing achievement include school characteristics, root causes, student health, and funding. Read More

Untreated opioid use disorder (OUD), a chronic brain disease, has a serious cost to people, their families, and society via increased health care spending, criminal justice issues, and lost productivity. Read More

Electronic health records (EHRs) hold key information: a patient’s medical history, medications, allergies and more. But patients see multiple doctors in different locations, and current ways of matching people to their records are inadequate. Read More