The expansive promise of the new year often morphs to a fine point: This year, I will change my body; this year, I will lose weight.

Healthy eating challenges and promotional offers for diet plans abound in the early days of January. But soon, many people will have cast aside aspirations for the comfort of old habits.

There’s abundant speculation that our smartphones make us less happy. Twitter: saps your attention. Facebook: fills you with FOMO. Email: your boss is barking directives again.

As Medicaid reimbursement rates increase, nursing homes add more licensed staff per resident, improving quality of care, a new model suggests.

Communities with local health departments that promote and provide mental health care have lower rates of preventable hospitalizations.

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are pro-life organizations that often offer women incorrect, incomplete or misleading information about their reproductive options.

Regardless of beat, journalists often write about public opinion polls, which are designed to measure the public’s attitudes about an issue or idea. Some of the most high-profile polls center on elections and politics. Newsrooms tend to follow these polls closely to see which candidates are ahead, who’s most likely to win and what issues voters feel most strongly about.

Door-to-door canvassing campaigns actually work to persuade voters and sway national election outcomes – even when they don’t encourage more people to show up to the polls, according to a June 2018 article published in American Economic Review.

Teen boys from low-income neighborhoods were less likely to have threatened or injured someone with a weapon if they had hopes and goals for the future, a new research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics finds.