Health

Reducing plate waste—the amount of food discarded by students—is an important goal for school food service departments within their ultimate mission: to support children’s health and academic success by ensuring that they are well-nourished. Read More

Reducing plate waste—the amount of food discarded by students—is an important goal for school food service departments within their ultimate mission: to support children’s health and academic success by ensuring that they are well-nourished. Read More

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Medicaid is the largest health insurance program in the United States, covering both acute and long-term care services for over 66 million low-income Americans—children and their parents, as well as elderly and disabled individuals. This report focuses on the impact of Medicaid on the states, including trends in spending and enrollment, and the anticipated effects of the Affordable Care Act. Read More

State spending for health care services varies widely by state. But the relationship between the services delivered and residents' health status—how "healthy" people are—is complex. The amount a state spends on such services is not necessarily correlated with better or worse health status. Read More

Reducing plate waste—the amount of food discarded by students—is an important goal for school food service departments within their ultimate mission: to support children’s health and academic success by ensuring that they are well-nourished. Read More

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Building on an earlier report that examined how two private practices used dental therapists, Expanding the Dental Team: Increasing Access to Care in Public Settings looks at three examples of midlevel dental providers working to expand care to underserved populations in nonprofit, public settings. Read More

Click below for the latest facts, figures and other key resources that illustrate how antibiotic overuse on industrial farms is breeding dangerous superbugs and what’s being done to protect the public’s health. Read More

The Pew children’s dental campaign submitted written testimony on funding priorities for federal fiscal year 2015 to the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related agencies, focusing on Centers for Disease Control prevention funds for states, and removing a ban on funding for oral health workforce demonstration programs. Read More

Reducing plate waste—the amount of food discarded by students—is an important goal for school food service departments within their ultimate mission: to support children’s health and academic success by ensuring that they are well-nourished. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts announced the 2014 classes of biomedical scholars and Latin American fellows on June 24. In addition, Pew and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust named the inaugural class of the Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research, a joint initiative that supports scientists whose work is aimed at finding cures for cancer. Read More

President Barack Obama hosted the first White House Maker Faire on June 18. Presenters demonstrated do-it-yourself techniques optimizing technologies such as 3-D printers. Among the invited “makers” was Manu Prakash, a 2013 Pew scholar and assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Read More

Twenty-two outstanding early-career researchers were named Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Read More

Ten researchers were named Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Read More

Medicaid is the largest health insurance program in the United States, covering both acute and long-term care services for over 66 million low-income Americans—children and their parents, as well as elderly and disabled individuals. This report focuses on the impact of Medicaid on the states, including trends in spending and enrollment, and the anticipated effects of the Affordable Care Act. Read More

State spending for health care services varies widely by state. But the relationship between the services delivered and residents' health status—how "healthy" people are—is complex. The amount a state spends on such services is not necessarily correlated with better or worse health status. Read More

Bobby Curtis, a dental health aide therapist in rural Alaska, describes working with patients and how he interacts with his supervising dentist. Read More

Christy Jo Fogarty, an advanced dental therapist at a non-profit clinic in Minnesota, describes working with patients and how she interacts with her supervising dentist. Read More

Christy Jo Fogarty, an advanced dental therapist at a non-profit clinic in Minnesota, describes working with patients and how she interacts with her supervising dentist. Read More