Welcome to the Health Behavior News Service, a resource for the news media and public to find the best and most recent evidence-based scientific research to help people make decisions about their health and health care.

HBNS monitors articles in peer-reviewed journals and research by nonprofit, public- and private-sector producers of systematic evidence reviews. We turn the research into readable, accurate and useful news stories on health promotion, disease prevention, chronic conditions and health care services. Registration for this service is free, but limited to newspaper, magazine, broadcast, newsletter, freelance and Internet journalists.

On this site you will find links to stories we have done on articles appearing in 30 peer-reviewed social science journals since 1999; links to our popular "Prepared Patient" monthly series; and a "Journalists Only" premium area containing stories embargoed for release and tools for making better use of evidence.

We are an independent, nonprofit program of the Center for Advancing Health, which receives unrestricted funding from The Annenberg Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Editorial control of the news service is solely in the hands of the editor.

HBNS has been designated a "best practice for communication of science and technology to the public" by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Embargoed News Stories

We issue embargoed news by e-mail, but we encourage you to bookmark and visit this site, both to keep up to date and to look for background material on long-term projects. By registering for access to the premium site or by receiving e-mailed stories, you agree to abide by the embargoes, namely that none of the information may be printed, posted or broadcast before the embargo time and date.

The Prepared Patient

The Prepared Patient, a series from the Health Behavior News Service, is intended to help Americans participate more fully in their health care. Each month we will explore a new topic to prepare readers for productive encounters with the health care system: whether understanding the need for check-ups, to managing their own chronic diseases, to getting the most value from doctor-patient interactions. Subscribe now!

CFAH's Daily Digest

Every weekday by 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, we produce the Health Behavior News Digest, linking you to the top stories in that morning's news media from around the world. The stories are on the latest evidence-based health research and on policy that affects how people make decisions about their own health care. We monitor news events daily to provide background information and interview ideas for breaking stories and to suggest newsworthy trends in health behavior for feature stories. We also alert journalists by e-mail when a previous study or evidence review might be of use in contextualizing a breaking story. Subscribe now!

Contact Us

The Health Behavior News Service (HBNS) is a project of the Center for Advancing Health. For general questions, please contact HBNS' editor, Lisa Esposito at 202-387-2829, or send email to lesposito@cfah.org. general questions can be directed to: press@cfah.org