Public Health

Despite state and local action, more effective reduction of single-use plastics must come from Congress.

An economic approach more fully captures the cost of gun violence than a public health approach.

Policymakers should deploy strategies beyond regulation to reduce gun-related harm.

Federal health agencies should work together to address public health problems.

Scholar examines ways that local governments are combating issues like obesity and asthma.

Scholars propose accountability model to regulate how food is marketed to children.

Scholar argues that recent FDA regulations may keep smokers in the dark about e-cigarettes.

Lawyer argues that United States should ramp up regulation of dietary supplements.

The Supreme Court declines to resolve issue of whether state hospitals can be sued for false insurance claims.

New Philadelphia policies demonstrate the challenges of local regulation.

Scholar argues that governments should embrace vaping’s smoking-cessation potential.

FDA is years behind in its statutory mandate to put graphic warnings on cigarette labels.