Michael Yudell, PhD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, wrote a March 9 Public Health Post piece about the misuse of racial categories in biomedical research. "Many public health ...

Researchers, epidemiologists and clinicians have begun to reconcile the history of systemic racism and its inherent links to the modern American medical system of research, training and practice — ...

Our understanding of sex has come a long way. Aristotle theorized that heat during conception determined whether someone was born male or female. But while researchers have long moved on from that ...

Quantitative research often feels like the most structured side of inquiry. It deals with numbers, measurement, and objectivity, offering a clear framework for testing ideas and identifying ...

Discrepancies in long COVID definitions hinder accurate diagnosis and treatment, necessitating a standardized definition for better clinical and research outcomes. A study identified five common ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 5 conducted a systematic review on the use of instrumental variable (IV) methods in oncology comparative effectiveness research. The main ...

When studying the health effects of probiotics and prebiotics, researchers often observe significant variation in responses to these gut-targeting interventions, both between individuals and between ...

Two days after getting my second dose of the Moderna mRNA vaccine as part of a clinical trial, my body was still mounting a robust immune response when, from the floor of my son’s bathroom, I ...