As of May 16, 2026, 248 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Central Africa and 81 deaths have been reported. The strain responsible for this outbreak, Bundibugyo virus, is rare, and there is ...
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Ahead of the 2026 Shared Care Network Meeting, the HEADS Center communications team conducted interviews with family caregivers and direct care workers to better understand their lived experiences ...
The federally recommended vaccine schedule for American kids abruptly changed Monday when the Department of Health and Human Services removed several vaccines from the list of shots recommended for ...
Just a generation or so ago, tens of thousands of people in the U.S.—mainly children—were afflicted by paralytic poliovirus. In 1955, an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which contained a “killed” ...
Embrace the Healing Power of Nature Welcome to our Spring 2024 issue of Health Equity Happenings! It’s been a productive and successful season at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Here are a ...
The CDC also reports estimates of both medical and non-medical exemptions to vaccination requirements. While medical exemptions remained stable at 0.2% in 2024-25, non-medical exemptions reached an ...
from the Court in five other pending Second Amendment cases. Implications for Survivors of Domestic Violence The decision has significant implications for survivors of domestic violence. By upholding ...
A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health have crafted a new tool for lawmakers to write effective safe firearm storage laws.
On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, communities exist alongside some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical production plants. Since the 1980s, the area has ...
The U.S. has reported more than 1,600 cases of measles to date in 2025, the largest number of cases since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Effectively responding to a measles outbreak ...
Until recently, there were multiple theories about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Finger-pointing, politics, and mis- and disinformation soured the discussion, but researchers have continued to prod for ...