Medicine Buffalo

UB researchers show why cannabis policies should shift to a harm reduction, health promotion approach to safeguard public health

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Millions of Americans use cannabis to treat a plethora of health conditions. They are rarely under a health care provider’s supervision and their access to quality information about ...
Health Affairs

Attacks On Vaccine Hesitancy And Promotion Research Undermine Public Health

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Lancet

Reorienting health promotion in remote Pacific Island communities: building family and child-centered agent-of-change models for sustainable behavior change

Remote island communities across the Western Pacific (from Pacific Island countries to the dispersed outer islands of Indonesia and the Philippines) face a shared and escalating non-communicable ...
Science Daily

Researchers show why cannabis policies should shift to a harm reduction, health promotion approach to safeguard public health

A new paper explains why there needs to be a shift in cannabis policies to a public health approach as opposed to the prevailing, more punitive approach that pushes abstinence instead of public ...