The state House of Representatives this week approved legislation to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines for children in Rhode ...

The money funded vaccination, epidemiology and laboratory work, community health workers, and efforts to address health ...

The Rhode Island Attorney General's Office is working with the state Health Department to "assess potential next steps" after the CDC terminated $31 million in grants to the agency.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abruptly canceled more than $30 million in federal funding that had ...

Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...

(NBC News) A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to explain why U.S. immigration enforcement "willfully disobeyed" ...

Rising sea levels are a threat to coastal regions everywhere, but especially for islands. No example stands out more than the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu. But as Kathleen Schuster reports from our ...

The new study shows that this aging process may not inactivate the H5N1 virus, however, and it underscores the risk of consuming raw or undercooked foods during the bird flu outbreak, which ...

The Los Angeles Times has reported a potentially troubling genetic mutation in dairy cows infected with H5N1 bird flu in San Bernardino County, but federal agencies have yet to confirm the findings.

The new study shows that this aging process may not inactivate the H5N1 virus, however, and it underscores the risk of consuming raw or undercooked foods during the bird flu outbreak, which continues ...

The first case was announced in Rhode Island on March 1 ... if we had a bird flu pandemic," said Mermel, talking about H5N1. "So when people have asked me over the years what keeps me up at ...

The H5N1 virus has been confirmed in Canada geese whose carcasses were collected from Vernon Bridge, P.E.I. The confirmatory testing of the geese shows the presence of the H5N1 virus in six out of ...