As usual, it’s complicated.

(a tiresome thing from the internet this weekend, and some new stories)

Abstract. The adverse association between smoking and mortality is well known, yet estimated risks for smokers have risen markedly in recent decades. Expla

Measles vaccination protects your entire immune history.

Anytime is good, but October may be best.

Workshop dates: Wednesday, November 11th - Friday, November 13th, 2026 The Colorado Fertility Project and CUPC are pleased to announce a workshop for graduate students and early-career researchers wh...

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

Anytime is good, but October may be best.

A recent Federal Reserve working paper argues that rising “impaired fecundity” among younger women — especially Gen Z — may be contributing to declining U.S.

Kennedy’s sperm obsession combined with his desire for healthy "Trump babies" to serve in a military led by a White supremacist, whom he believes to be a divinely anointed, testosterone-filled über

Today’s tech elite ideologies are generating underpopulation panic. How do they compare to Malthusianism?

It’s a little complicated

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

The social consequences of hereditarianism

Trailing Dolly Parton around the world, I witnessed so many small moments in which she’d gracefully own her power without the slightest hint of fight.

Dolly Parton's America · Episode

8.4k words, 38 minutes reading time

Oxford researchers launch RobustiPy, a new open-source tool designed to make scientific findings more robust and reliable.

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research is an open access journal that features contributions addressing population trends as well as a broad range of theoretical and methodological issues in popul...

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a ninth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

Virus reactivations by SARS-CoV-2 could worsen initial symptoms and increase risk of Long Covid

Between 2011 and 2019, England & Wales saw slower life expectancy gains than other European countries, slippingdown in international rankings. New LCDS research explores what was going on underneath t...

In a recent Opinion piece in The Guardian, David Relman discusses the origin of COVID-19 in the context of the Fauci hearing before Rand Paul's committee. The text overlooks scientific evidence, engag...

Job #AJO32464, Faculty Position in Global Health Innovation and Policy (Associate Professor or Professor Level), Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US