In June, Katrina Randolph, owner and operator of Tre Shadez Hair Studio in Capitol Heights, MD, transformed her salon into a COVID-19 vaccine clinic, the 

School of Public Health faculty experts racked up thousands of news clips this calendar year. The interviews and stories mostly focused on helping the public understand the pandemic threat and how to stay safe and healthy, correcting misinformation whenever possible and sharing the latest science on COVID-19 transmission and vaccine development. 

A new study finds that although running pummels knees more than walking, it may strengthen and build up cartilage, helping fight off knee arthritis, The New York Times reported. 

Knee arthritis develops for some runners but not all. As a group, avid runners may be “statistically less likely” to become arthritic than nonrunners, The Times said. 

On Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extracted updated language published just days earlier about how Covid-19 spreads airborne and defaulted to its previous guidance about Covid-19 transmission, CNN reported.

"A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency's official website,” said Jason McDonald, a CDC spokesman. 

We are standing at a pivotal moment in history: the most important election year of our lives, MPH student Cameron Etessami wrote in a Maryland Matters editorial. 

"The last years of the 2010s is what historians will describe as a time when the nation was lost, arguing turning to yelling, led by a populist that cared more about riling his base than the health of his nation," Etessami wrote. 

With high rates of food security, high rates of uninsured patients and one of the least educated states in the nation, it is clear that Nevada has failed to prioritize public health, MHA student and Nevada native Fabian Donate wrote in The Nevada Independent.

The Big Ten Conference’s decision last week to postpone the fall athletics season, the latest coronavirus-driven disappointment for sports fans, shows the conference has its priorities straight, Maryland School of Public Health Dean

In an interview with Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, Sacoby Wilson, associate professor of environmental health, said that people of color are more likely to experience extreme heat.

On July 6, CBS News' chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook spoke with Dr.

In a letter directed to the medical community, to the WHO and the CDC released on July 6, Dr. Don Milton, professor of applied environmental health in the University of Maryland School of Public Health, was joined by 239 scientific colleagues from 32 countries in urging these bodies to recognize the potential for airborne spread of COVID-19 and to do more to communicate this risk and advocate for the widespread use of preventive measures.