Also in the Global Health Checkup: Severe hunger, biodiversity loss, the global funding gap, and a tuberculosis comeback.

There’s a shortage of RNs across the U.S., with Georgia needing to train 772 more a year to keep up with projected demand. One nurse’s journey from Khartoum shows how foreign-trained nurses can help plug that gap.

The new cases are the first reported clade I infections in the United States that don’t involve international travel, the California Department of Public Health said.

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words.

A core part of the job will be appointing a commissioner to lead one of the largest public health agencies in the world and to set priorities on issues like chronic disease, mental health, overdose prevention, vaccines, and climate and emergency preparedness.

For the leaders of CARE, The Carter Center, The Task Force on Global Health, the CDC, and the CDC Foundation, the abrupt cuts have brought layoffs and challenges to fulfilling their mission.

New research, suspected cases in N.J., Washington this year raise concerns about local malaria infections.

Efforts to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo may show that the WHO and Red Cross can rally new sources of emergency aid in absence of U.S. But is that a long-term solution?

More than 40% of adults are obese in some states. New report details U.S. obesity epidemic and makes policy recommendations amid federal cuts to public health.

The longer and more continuously we can monitor patterns, whether in a person’s physiology or a community’s wastewater, the better able we are able to assess health, even if each individual measurement is imperfect.

The county health agency identified the first measles case Sept. 10 in the student, who had spent time on campus, at a Sweetgreen eatery at Ponce City Market, and local soccer practices and games.

Together Take Me Home, based at Emory University, delivers the tests through an easy-to-use website and integration with dating apps.

About 140,000 people across the state benefit from enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. Cutting them would be more expensive for everyone in the long run.

Alison Young has covered health, science and environmental issues for most of her career, including as a CDC beat reporter during an earlier time of controversial change at the agency.

The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Here's what to know.

Nurses say nursing remains a noble calling, but many report feeling pressured to turn over beds and take on more patients, stress that can dissuade young people from entering the field and drive experienced nurses to leave or retire early.

'We are able to give the vaccine now without a prescription. We just have to have a convo with the patient and review the screening form,' said Dr. Johnathan Hamrick, an Atlanta pharmacist.

Several factors may explain a drop in reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, but the national data are not complete. Here's what to make of it.

As HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismantling of federal vaccine policy continues to roil the CDC, some Democratic-led states have struck out on their own.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposal to add autism to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could unleash a flood of claims, threatening the program's financial stability.