Medicine is steadily improving its evidence base, but in children, careful research and ethical limits mean progress takes time.

In the United States today, a person’s ability to live a healthy life is dramatically affected by where he or she lives. Someone’s subway stop or neighborhood block can mean the difference between ...

Austin skyline. The city's “Reimagining Public Safety” project used evidence-based policymaking to inform the city's budget decisions and to shape public safety policies starting in 2020.

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

Recognition of the need to restore degraded landscapes is accelerating at pace. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (the UN Decade) has triggered a global movement to rally individual action, ...

What do the terms “evidence-based,” “fetus,” and “transgender” have in common? They’re on a list of seven words banned by the current Presidential Administration from the Center of Disease Control’s ...

There is general agreement on six psychotherapy-based treatment techniques for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the most effective, evidence-based approaches available. These treatment ...