As the first director of South Carolina's newly organized health agency, Dr. Edward Simmer has a vision of reducing infant ...

Gov. Newsom must seek emergency funds and significantly increase the state budget for combating infectious diseases. While ...

The advisory had called for more research funding, better mental health access and other steps such as secure storage to ...

Rhode Island lawmakers have an opportunity to pass an assault weapons ban this legislative session, local physicians write.

Ottawa Public Health is preparing for measles in the city as cases continue to surge across Ontario. There have been no cases ...

Public health experts say Texas needs better messaging on vaccinations and quarantining and more people conducting contact ...

For many, public health was a relatively vague concept before the COVID-19 pandemic. Health departments or health districts ...

The director of public health for the city of Lubbock said Tuesday that uptake of the measles vaccine “has definitely been a ...

As society locked down for the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, public health professionals found themselves in the ...

The very public sharing of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s health details raises ethical questions over privacy.

The man tapped to lead South Carolina’s public health agency says he won’t back down after facing threats, harassment and ...