Participants in the Framingham Heart Study who achieved higher levels of education tended to age more slowly and went on to live longer lives as compared to those who did not achieve upward educational mobility ..read more

Education about gene-by-environment interaction (G X E) causes of eating behaviors can have beneficial downstream effects on attitudes toward people with higher weight. A recent study found that participants who received education about G X E concepts reported higher empathy and held fewer stigmatizing attitudes toward individuals with higher weight. G X E is when two different genotypes respond to variations in the environment in two different ways ..read more

Discarded cigarette butts are a top source of plastic pollution, and a new study estimates that banning menthol cigarettes in the United States would lead to 3.8 billion fewer littered cigarette filters each year, saving about 750,000 kg -- or 1.7 million pounds -- of waste each year ..read more

A new study projects that a U.S. ban on menthol cigarettes, proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will lead more than 1.3 million smokers to quit. Among them, Black smokers will see the greatest impact ..read more

Raising taxes on tobacco is associated with a reduction in neonatal and infant mortality, according to an analysis of 159 countries ..read more

A new study found that spousal education is positively related to people's overall health, with an effect size that rivals the impact of a person's own education ..read more

E-cigarette use did not help smokers quit and may make smokers more likely to relapse, according to a new study ..read more

A new study captures the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on public health: Many public health workers have been redeployed to COVID-related duties, leaving other critical public health issues with reduced or suspended services. That means investigation of other communicable diseases, food-related illness, public-health surveillance, chronic diseases and other critical services have suffered ..read more

A study found that food insecurity among college students is associated with lower college graduation rates and lower chances of obtaining a bachelor's or advanced degree ..read more

Congressional districts with the highest opioid prescribing rates are predominantly concentrated in the southeastern U.S., with other hotspots in Appalachia and the rural west, according to the first study to focus on opioid prescribing rates at the congressional district level ..read more