In 2024, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the United States and the United Kingdom will grow, although postmortem reviews conclude that 80 percent of maternal deaths in high-income countries are ...

Americans born in the 1960s and early 1970s report higher loneliness and depressive symptoms and show poorer memory and ...

Ohio State medical students are putting their hearts in the right place. A fundraiser organized by students in the Ohio State College of Medicine to provide low-socioeconomic patients with financial ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

Vanderbilt University has launched the Vanderbilt Center for Research on Inequality and Health, a collaboration between the university’s College of Arts and Science and the School of Nursing.

The political debate that has been occupying much of our time over the past several weeks -- that of Obama's health care plan granting free access to birth control for women -- fails to take into ...

The findings confound predictions in some quarters that disadvantaged children, who had worse mental health to start with, would be hardest hit. But even if child mental health has become more equal, ...

As Vice President Kamala Harris recently declared to Midwestern voters, “We must fight for a future where every American has an opportunity to own a home, start a business, and build wealth.” With ...

Income inequality in society has been linked to structural changes in the brains of children who go on to experience poorer mental health. A King's College London study is the first to reveal how an ...

Australia has made progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy since the late 2010s, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU), setting the country ...