That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...

Public health experts say Texas needs better messaging on vaccinations and quarantining and more people conducting contact tracing to contain the spread.

The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us that our knowledge of infectious disease keeps evolving, inviting us to rethink and improve ...

Policymakers must work tirelessly to prevent kids from beginning drug use and help people with addiction to achieve ...

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

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

The Courier-News asked the eight candidates running for the Elgin City Council what they think should be done about the issue ...

Homeless deaths in Orange County increased incrementally over the last decade and rose to “unprecedented heights” between ...

The programs aim to address drug use from a public health and social justice perspective, rather than a security one.

It may not even be the one-in-10,000 risk of irreversible paralysis known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which is ...

The Trump administration removed a Biden-era surgeon general’s advisory on the public health effects of gun violence and a ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...