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.

Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with ...

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 ...

Environmental Protection Agency to review a key 2009 finding by the agency that greenhouse gases pose a risk to Americans.

The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced that it renewed the public health emergency for the nation’s ...