In the U.S. public health system, local and state health departments collect and own the data rather than the federal ...

Local and state health departments in New York collect and own health data rather than the federal government. With uncertainties surrounding federal data sharing, this means we can still monitor ...

As human-driven warming fuels extreme weather patterns across the West — including fires and record heat — outdoor ...

Take President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Kennedy, a well-known vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, whose Senate confirmation hearing was Wednesday, ...

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families. It ...

Multiple hospitals in Passaic County are now requiring face masks for their patients, staff members and visitors because of ...

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will provide additional directives at a Cabinet meeting today to address the ongoing ...

Idaho House lawmakers will once again take up a bill to ban government agencies from implementing mask mandates.

A new bill in the Idaho Legislature would let the Idaho State Tax Commission share tax returns with public assistance fraud ...

To do this, states should establish agencies that both reduce the damage caused by disasters and provide public disaster insurance for all households to help them recover when unpreventable ...

Britain is on high alert as a surge in human metapneumovirus cases prompts health warnings and calls for Britons to wear ...

Britain is on high alert as a surge in human metapneumovirus cases prompts health warnings and calls for Britons to wear ...