The years ahead will test our mettle, but we will deliver for public health.

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Social media is amplifying conflicts and normalizing bad behavior as teens film fights and post them online to draw hundreds of views and comments.

What is digital life doing to young minds?

From job sites to city streets, courtrooms to EHRs, five stories show public health’s reach and impact.

Instead of confronting the structural forces that create and sustain homelessness, these strategies shift responsibility onto those most harmed by the policy failures that perpetuate this crisis.

In Bel Air, a town of around 10,500 people, two people have died by suicide at the Bel Air Parking Garage since the start of the year.

As the sweltering summer heat reaches unbearable temperatures, Baltimore’s unhoused population is in crisis. Those experiencing homelessness sprawl out in the shade — if any is available — while at ri...

From job sites to city streets, courtrooms to EHRs, five stories show public health’s reach and impact.

Psychosis and depression carry very different types of stigma, and acknowledging that is crucial to advocacy campaigns.

Janiah Fields, a Baltimore native and a senior at McDaniel College majoring in psychology, is the 2025 Top 100 Women Scholarship winner.

Less than half of Americans know that they’re increasing their cancer risk by drinking alcohol. Updated warning labels could help raise awareness.

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A Pew survey highlights the pressures that social media, academics and gender norms create for teens.

Pre-existing medical debt associated with higher rate of forgoing mental health treatment due to cost.

Biennial surveillance report includes data from 16 sites across the U.S., including a Maryland site covering five Baltimore-area counties.

A study in JAMA says young women, age 18 to 25, are binge drinking slightly more than men the same age. The good news: Drinking is down for both young men and women compared to earlier generations.