The doctor who would be the first director of South Carolina's newly organized health agency has a vision of reducing infant ...

“And maybe for the best.” Instead, she and others said, public health agencies need to be “really nimble” and respond with targeted interventions like tracking down individuals with an ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said it would "formally reconsider" a landmark 2009 finding by the agency that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. The announcement was ...

This brought real-world context to a 50-state analysis of policies and practices that govern how public health agencies receive data from physicians, hospitals, laboratories and emergency departments.

A fired public health worker at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worries that she and her family will lose their housing as her pay runs out in mid-March. And federal agencies ...

He has not gone that far, but in an interview last month shortly after being sworn in last month, Kennedy said he wanted to remove some workers from the public health agencies. “I have a list in ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — A new study investigated the mortality and mental health correlates of the iconic Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday ... Feb. 25, 2025 — A healthy diet in early ...

What Is the FDA’s Role in Public Health? The U.S. health agency regulates the country’s foods and drugs, among other products. With the FDA’s role in drug development and nutrition policy ...

He has not gone that far, but in an interview shortly after being sworn in last month, he said he wanted to remove some workers from the public health agencies. “I have a list in my head ...

But agencies do have a role in promoting health and preventing disease through public education. To that end, transparency is needed to restore confidence in government-created diet recommendations.

One notable lesson of the administration's efforts to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development is that health spending abroad not only supports foreign communities but also helps ...