COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It’s spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic. On May 7, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health published a major study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases documenting research on bird flu in cats and calling for urgent surveillance of cats to help avoid human-to-human transmission.

COLLEGE PARK, MD – A new study out today in JAMA Health Forum is the first to show that Blac

A new study out today in Health Affairs shows that state-funded health insurance coverage of abortion is a crucial factor in access, particularly for Black and Hispanic people and people in low-income communities.

Dr. Mika Hamer is about to go ghost hunting.

Patients with severe mental illnesses (SMI), including schizophrenia spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, have a greater risk of Alzheimer’s dementia before age 70 due to accelerated brain aging.

In a new study published in Environmental Research Letters, an international team of investigators led by Professor Amir Sapkota offered a way to predict the risk of deadly diarrhea outbreaks using AI modeling, giving public health systems weeks or even months to prepare and to save lives.

“The early warning systems outlined in this research will enable public health practitioners to enhance community resilience against health threats posed by climate change,” Sapkota said.

Climate change-related extreme weather, such as massive flooding and prolonged drought, often result in dangerous outbreaks of diarrheal diseases particularly in less developed countries, where diarrheal diseases is the third leading cause of death among young children. Now a study out Oct.

Watch Kiersten Janjigian discussing her basketball experiment on the School of Public Health's Instagram page.

Climate change is driving more extreme heat and more air pollution from wildfires, each of which put human health at risk.

THE STATELY 23-STORY HOTEL OPENED AT the height of the Jazz Age, but less than a year later, Wall Street’s 1929 crash snuffed out revelry in the opulent ballroom and secret speakeasy. That’s when the property, then one of Baltimore’s tallest buildings, supposedly began accumulating ghosts: failed businessmen, wiped-out tycoons, even a bankrupt couple reputed to have jumped to their deaths on a downtown street with their young daughter.