Today South Brooklyn Health is fortified by a four-foot flood wall. A new hospital building features hurricane-resistant glass, and power and water systems designed to withstand future storms.

The Atlanta case announced Friday is the year's seventh in Georgia, prompting a massive contract tracing investigation.

SNAP recipients are encouraged to prepare paperwork and documentation now before modifications to the program begin.

It's a temporary solution, but you can now get a Covid-19 vaccine at New York pharmacies without a prescription.

A group of young Montanans argue Trump's orders violate their Fifth Amendment rights and will cause nearly 200,000 additional deaths over the next 25 years and lead to more heart, respiratory, and other health problems.

Kids account for nearly half of enrollees in Medicaid, the state and federally financed health program for low-income and disabled people, and its related Children’s Health Insurance Program.

A delay in recommendations from a CDC panel on who should get the shots has spurred Georgia pharmacies to require a prescription.

The Trump administration has pushed a significant amount of health costs to states, whose budgets may already be strained by declining state tax revenues, a slowdown in pandemic spending, and economic uncertainty. State and local governments now face difficult decisions.

Georgia has some of the worst pregnancy outcomes in the United States, but community health organizations are working to change that.

H5N1 has been detected backyard chicken flocks in the Atlanta area. Here’s what to know if you keep chickens.

As extremism and radicalization worsen in the United States, a group of researchers is trying out a new approach that addresses the issue as a public health problem.

Unlike previous years, when the Covid vaccine was widely available at retail pharmacies, this year you may need a prescription.

Chaotic government processes and upheaval have left Covid vaccine recommendations in limbo, especially in New York.

Public health professionals rely on federally maintained data to track disease trends, assess risk factors, and design interventions. Beginning in late January, datasets central to this work started to vanish.

A close look at the process by which vaccines are administered shows pediatric practices make little profit — and sometimes lose money — on vaccines.

The resignations and public statements of senior leaders from the CDC signal that the nation’s premier public health agency is now guided by ideology, rather than science. These events raise two questions: Why do we need a CDC? What happens if we do not have one we can trust?

Many drugstores in Georgia say they will require a prescription for the updated Covid vaccine until a federal committee makes firm recommendations on who should get the shot.

On Friday, the agency declared the end of the outbreak, which has resulted in 114 cases, including 90 hospitalizations and seven deaths.

It’s not just the bugs: Recent events, from a bus crash in upstate New York to the close of a Legionnaires’ outbreak, show how fragile our systems can be, and how directly that fragility impacts our health.

New standards for school lunches and hospital meals include a ban on processed meats and restrictions on artificial colors, additives, and preservatives.