When Joshua O’Neal, sexual health program director at the Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) in Georgia, took on a project to improve patient access to STI testing, he didn’t know he’d be facing a perfect storm of...
A new paper published in the latest issue of Health Affairs takes a look at the burgeoning role of health equity officer, highlighting where hospitals are getting it right with this role and where...
The new COVID-19 booster has decent traction among adults, but many still harbor more vaccine hesitancy and safety concerns for the shot than they do for other vaccinations like the flu and RSV shots,...
Six in 10 adults over age 50 haven’t heard of RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, and another 70 percent haven’t heard of the RSV vaccine most experts say could stave off another...
A whopping four in 10 Americans has heard medical misinformation and false claims about COVID-19, reproductive health, and gun violence, illustrating a difficult landscape for medical and public health...
Although the number of doctors spreading medical misinformation is small, new data looking particularly at COVID-19-related misinformation reveals that providers have a broad reach with their...
YouTube is continuing its efforts to combat online medical misinformation by further clarifying how it will assess online video content.
The Google-owned social media platform said it will zero in on...
Informative videos have long been a key part of public health messaging, and new data from NYU Grossman School of Medicine is giving insights into how to increase patient trust in those videos,...
Healthcare providers are already aware of the risk of medical misinformation on social media sites, but a new study from researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine showed just how...
A new report from Safely Opening Schools (SOS) showed that programs allowing consumers free access to COVID-19 tests were effective—so long as people knew about them.
The program, which...
The healthcare industry has a big credibility and patient trust problem on its hands, with new data from Edelman showing that 34 percent of people think any average layperson could know just as much as...
YouTube is retooling how it presents medical information on social media by outlining new content policies for videos about eating disorders, the company’s director and head of YouTube Health...
Half of adults say they’d get an annual COVID-19 booster shot, not unlike getting their annual flu shot, according to the latest data from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
But still, less...
The medical misinformation problem isn’t going away, with around three-quarters of physicians saying inaccurate medical information has made it harder to treat patients and has impacted patient...
The racial gap in overdose deaths is not a new phenomenon, but according to new research out of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, those racial health disparities got even worse starting in 2018...
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, an alarming trend in cancer outcomes has emerged—the trust of Black patients in government-provided cancer health information has plummeted by almost 50...
The University of Pittsburgh’s community-based strategy for reducing opioid deaths has helped counties across the state fortify public health, boost patient access to care, and ultimately,...
Public health agencies that communicated clearly, led with science, and provided protective resources were able to build patient trust more than those agencies that appeared to be politically...
There’s some good medical information on consumer-facing social media platforms like YouTube, but those aren’t the ones most people are viewing, according to researchers from Brigham and...
All of the reports counting the number of individuals getting the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters may make a difference, with new data from the University of Texas at Austin showing that people are more...
