Accompanied by the island nation’s prime minister, Brown University public health professor Stephen McGarvey celebrated a new facility for studying the lifestyle and genetic influences of obesity and non-communicable diseases in Samoa.

New research finds that while many Rhode Island young adults who use opioids get screened for hepatitis C, they aren’t always connected to care for an infection if one is detected.

With a new $3 million grant, a multi-institutional team led by Brown University public health researchers will measure and test how ‘resilience,’ or the ability to flourish in spite of adversity, may lead to better HIV-related outcomes.

As public health officials combat the opioid overdose epidemic, in part by reducing unnecessary prescribing, a study shows that drug manufacturers paid more than $46 million to more than 68,000 doctors over a 29-month period.

A new analysis projects that inaction on climate change could lead to tens of thousands more heat-related deaths annually in U.S. metropolitan areas within a few generations.

Patients in nursing homes that provided a high-dose flu vaccine were significantly less likely than residents in standard-dose homes to go to the hospital during flu season, according to a new study.

In a pair of studies of Rhode Island’s opioid overdose epidemic, Brown University researchers show that while heroin users appear desperate to avoid fentanyl, it’s killing more of them every year.

New research shows that New Englanders are susceptible to serious health effects even when the heat index is below 100, a finding that has helped to change the National Weather Service threshold for heat warnings.

A routine diabetes test produces lower blood sugar readings in African-Americans with sickle cell trait than in those without, potentially leading patients to remain untreated or with a mistaken sense of blood sugar control, study finds.