As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well. It had one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

Spring break is approaching for students across the commonwealth, and while VDH specialists say they don’t advise against traveling, they do say that any period of heightened travel can lead ...

A local biologist has dedicated six years to arming community groups and individuals with data to help them reduce pollution in the West End.

Biogen’s successor to Spinraza (nusinersen) has shown benefit in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients who had suboptimal clinical status despite prior administration of gene therapy. In the Phase Ib ...

To get innovative healthcare technologies into the hands of providers, patients and others, it takes a community of partners to turn policy signals into market momentum.

More early-stage data show the drug, called salanersen, appeared to have positive effects on neurodegeneration and motor function in patients previously treated with Novartis' Zolgensma.

African countries must not sign away their health data or release their pathogens in exchange for donor funding.

Global levels of physical activity have not improved over the past two decades, despite widespread policy development and adoption, and large disparities persist across gender and socioeconomic groups ...

By linking NASA climate data with disease surveillance, the health agency is building a future where outbreaks are caught ...

The updates include the latest version of the WHO Health Inequality Data Repository (HIDR) and Version 7 of the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) software.

The Trump administration is reportedly proposing to spend around $2 billion per year replicating the global health capabilities of the World Health Organization, after the U.S. finalized its exit from ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.