Experts anticipate that by 2050 the senior population in the United States will be 135 percent higher than it was in the year 2000. In response to such significant growth, new industries must be created to address the needs of seniors.

To address the significant public health threat posed by sports-related concussions in children, all 50 states and the District of Columbia passed so-called "return-to-play" legislation between 2009 and 2014. Some are less effective than others, however, when it comes to protecting young athletes.

Can a city help improve your health outcomes? Can a hospital make you sick? The #SpacesOfHealth campaign, brought to you by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, seeks to answer these and similar questions in a series of live webinars around the relationship between environment and health.

Dr. Monique Turner, a social marketing and public health communication faculty member at GW, addressed the impact of effective communication on adult immunization at the Adult Immunization Summit at Princeton University last November.

Emergency rooms in Washington, D.C. regularly receive high national rankings, but they have some of the longest emergency room wait times and highest admission rates in the nation. The Kaiser …

Health care costs have increased three times faster than wages over the past decade. Just like any marketplace, prices for medical procedures, equipment and treatments vary dramatically among providers. An …