The cancellation of the funds comes weeks ahead of the FDA’s June 19 deadline for deciding on approval of lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable drug to prevent HIV.

Pregnant women who contracted Covid-19 were more likely to become severely ill and to be hospitalized than non-pregnant women of the same age and demographics.

As climate change drives up temperatures and the risk of heat-related illnesses in New York, public health leaders and researchers are paying more attention to heat surveillance.

Here's the latest on New York public health from Your Local Epidemiologist New York.

Last year, the NYC Health Department identified an alarming trend: Overdose is the city’s leading driver of pregnancy-associated death.

Organizers are concerned about access to services like testing and access to preventive drugs after the layoff of health department staff who worked on HIV and sexual health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that every adult get tested at least once in their lifetime as a part of routine health care, but only about a third of Americans do it. Here's how to get it done.

A budget bill passed in the U.S. House this week proposes sharp cuts to Medicaid, which about half of New York City residents rely on for health care coverage.

The FDA will encourage new clinical trials on the widely used vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults. The requirements could cost drugmakers tens of millions of dollars and are likely to leave boosters largely out of reach for hundreds of millions of Americans this fall.

A GOP tax-and-spending bill the House approved Thursday would slash federal Medicaid reimbursement for states that offer health coverage to immigrants without legal status.

The reduction in deaths is promising but tenuous, as racial disparities widen and uncertainty around federal funding could imperil progress.

The layoffs “were done without the prior knowledge or approval of the Georgia Department of Public Health,” spokesperson Nancy Nydam said. “DPH is reviewing the actions.”

Lead is a heavy metal that was widely used in paint, gasoline, plumbing, and construction until the 1970s. While we’ve stopped using lead in construction, much of it is still around.

Primary and urgent care clinics are often the first to see measles outbreaks, but most are insufficiently prepared. Many doctors practicing today have never seen a case.

One thing experts from a wide range of fields, from basic science to public health, agree on: The damage will be varied and immense.

The person contracted the disease while traveling internationally. State officials are working to identify anyone who may have been exposed to measles through contact with this person between May 10 and May 18.

The rate of such deaths has been stagnant for years, and clinicians and advocates say reducing mortality requires not only public education, but also addressing systemic issues like poverty and overcrowded housing.

Public health experts and advocates say that Health and Human Services regional offices, like the one in New York City, form the connective tissue between the federal government and locally based services.

As with many things in Atlanta, the answer involves Coca-Cola — and mosquitoes. Coca-Cola chairman Robert W. Woodruff purchased land in Baker County, Georgia, for quail hunting about 100 years ago.

The grants from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation come as New York braces for an estimated shortage of nearly 40,000 nurses by 2030.