In an economic sense, the optimal soda tax is surprisingly high, even if one values economic redistribution and opposes "regressivity...

Previous studies found sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are cost-effective from the societal perspective. Our new article in the American Jour...

Andy Bellatti last month summarized in a column for Civil Eats the recent activities of Dietitians for Professional Integrity, an initiativ...

The minority student caucus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill yesterday hosted the 34th annual Minority Health Conference ....

After months of saying that the H1N1 flu had not been found in the U.S. swine herd, USDA in October reported that the H1N1 flu virus was fou...

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A recent outpour of criticism of Tom Philpott's post connecting the swine flu outbreak with Granjas Carroll (a subsidiary of Smithfield...

I just got home from the opening of Food Inc ., a documentary that pulls back the veil of the industrialized food system. Repeatedly mention...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America today released 10 cross-cutting recommendations for health ...

Radio Technician Schools has released The Health Policy 100: The 100 Best Health Care Policy Blogs . The categories range from general heal...

New York State Health Commissioner Richard Daines has endorsed Gov. David Paterson's revenue-generating budget proposal to create a so-c...

The Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has introduced the Agriculture and Public Health Gate...

Jim Hightower -- the populist writer and speaker, radio personality, and former Commissioner of Agriculture for Texas -- will speak at the ...

The Massachusetts Senate shortly may take up a bill passed by the House (HB 4346), which would ban artificial trans fats in restaurants. Th...

Dr. David Schwartz, the director of the federal government's institute overseeing environmental health issues, is stepping aside tempora...