SALINAS — Painting murals on the side of a building may not seem like an effective way to prevent violent crime, but for one local program, that is exactly the strategy. Striving To Reduce Youth ...

Sameena M. Zahoor, MD, is a practicing family medicine specialist at Village Medical. She also volunteers at the Hope Clinic, which provides free primary medical care to uninsured and under-insured ...

Roswell experts suggest that their program design could serve as a blueprint for successful and sustainable survivorship programs at other institutions. Controlled Movement: Weighing Treatment Options ...

Some people with heart failure need to take multiple medicines each day in order to keep their symptoms under control. Heart failure not only leads to issues in the heart but other organs in the body ...

Prevention focuses on preventing hazards from occurring, whether they are natural, technological or caused by humans. Not all hazards are preventable, but the risk of loss of life and injury can be ...

Scientists have developed a new way to fight gum disease without wiping out the mouth’s helpful bacteria—a major shift from traditional treatments. Instead of killing everything, this targeted ...

Correspondence to Tarcisio F de Campos, Department of Health Professions, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia; ...

After Kate Middleton shocked the world with her cancer diagnosis, experts explain what the rest of us can learn from her experience. Though we often talk about chemotherapy as one treatment, there are ...

"To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" are among the first very words of the UN Charter (in its Preamble), and those words were the main motivation for creating the United Nations, ...

Public health involves a collective social effort to enhance health and prevent communicable and non-communicable diseases. Public health fulfills its mission through organized, interdisciplinary ...