The polarized disagreements about what worked and what didn’t in the fight against the biggest public health disaster in modern times have yet to be aired in a nonpartisan setting — and it seems unlikely they ever will be.
Seven CDC employees assigned to the local agency have been fired, Dr. Michelle Morse told the City Council.
USAID’s work is important to Atlanta on ‘many levels,’ said Mark Rosenberg, former president and CEO of the task force, which is headquartered in Decatur.
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.
Dr. Mark Griffiths, an Atlanta pediatrician, said he has seen flu cases rising in children of all ages.
Seven CDC employees assigned to the local agency have been fired, Dr. Michelle Morse told the City Council.
USAID’s work is important to Atlanta on ‘many levels,’ said Mark Rosenberg, former president and CEO of the task force, which is headquartered in Decatur.
The polarized disagreements about what worked and what didn’t in the fight against the biggest public health disaster in modern times have yet to be aired in a nonpartisan setting — and it seems unlikely they ever will be.
Dr. Mark Griffiths, an Atlanta pediatrician, said he has seen flu cases rising in children of all ages.
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.
The agency reported a case of hepatitis A, a liver infection, in a food handler at ilili Restaurant in the Flatiron District.
After two years of training, physicians who have met the program’s benchmarks could apply for a different license that would allow them to practice in an underserved community or at a teaching college.
Public health practitioners warn such outbreaks will become more common because of scores of laws around the United States — pending and passed — that ultimately lower vaccine rates.
128 organizations across the state are set to receive $70 million of settlement money.
Threats from the Trump administration and Congress to cut federal health dollars could have significant impacts for New York, lawmakers and advocates warn.
A new NIH policy ordered by the Trump administration would reduce the amount grants pay to universities to help with the costs of conducting research. That reduction could cost Emory University about $140 million a year.
Federal changes are happening at lightning speed, and while they may seem high-level or far away, they can have direct and indirect impacts on New Yorkers' health.
A local health department epidemiologist said the state has identified over 300 people exposed to measles from the initial case.
A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak, after eating raw food or drinking unpasteurized milk. Some of those cats died.
Seven cases were detected in poultry during routine inspections at live bird markets in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens in the past week.
‘There’s a fair amount of agreement across political parties, across demographics,‘ said Dr. Stephen Patrick, an Emory professor who helped design the survey.
The first metro Atlanta case was reported in someone who had been traveling within the United States. Now two relatives have the measles.
The governor wants to make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize those with severe mental illness in an effort to stem violence on streets and subways. Some mental health advocates and legal experts have qualms.
Among states, Georgia has the highest rate of new HIV infections, but residents — especially women and Black patients — are often not getting PrEP, a lifesaving preventive drug, data shows.
Using data from public rat sightings and inspections between 2007 and 2024, the researchers examined 16 cities around the world and found two-thirds saw increases in rat populations. New York City saw the fourth-highest spike in rats.