Today in JAMA, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended that clinicians either provide or refer children aged 6 and older who are overweight or obese to intensive behavioral therapies. Based on…
Monique Clesca is a journalist and former U.N. official in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. One morning this spring, as the sun’s orange tints seeped through my windows in the mountains east of…
Quil Lawrence, Brent Jones For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none. For hundreds…
Background The Special Rapporteur’s next report will explore challenges, latest developments and best practices concerning the identification, documentation, investigation and prosecution of crimes of sexual torture and other related cruel, inhuman…
Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, It pains me to start my Global Update to this Council, once again, with the cruelty of war. Last March, I spoke of the right…
Meilan Solly The celebration commemorates June 19, 1865, when a military decree informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were free In June 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill…
A new lesson plan centers Native American perspectives on the violence of Western expansion For thousands of years, Indigenous people inhabited and relied on the natural resources of the area…
CHIHUAHUA, México (AP) — Miguel Lara was born to run. It’s in his blood, his people’s history and tied to the land he calls “home.” “That’s what we do,” said…
Large-scale community-wide interventions to address opioid overdose deaths can be difficult to implement and require sustained effort before positive results are seen. That’s one of the lessons from a large…
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people’s lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes.…