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The administration slashed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, firing roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.
It is the only state that no longer collects immunization reports from local schools, creating a data gap for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State lawmakers are considering a bill to undo the policy.
Five years after the Covid pandemic arrived, the narrative that the U.S. should have had fewer virus control measures has gained momentum. Here are six questions for assessing the response.
The anti-fluoride movement has more momentum than ever. In rural counties with few dentists, tooth decay could surge to levels that have not been seen in decades, experts warn.
City and state health agencies need the collaboration of CDC experts to help investigate local disease outbreaks and other threats to public health.
As experts grow increasingly worried about bird flu, there is one critical intervention state and local governments can take now: Improve indoor air quality in places like schools.
National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
Nearly 3 million Americans who live in mostly rural counties lack both health care and reliable high-speed internet
The FDA’s oversight of food additives is much weaker than its oversight of prescription drugs.
State and federal lawmakers have proposed measures to limit mRNA vaccines and even punish doctors who give them.
Prior members were dismissed proceeding reports obtained detailing the “preventable” deaths of two women who were unable to obtain legal abortions or timely care after Georgia banned abortion.
The Trump administration’s sudden firings have gutted training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments.
The new pathways are open only to internationally trained physicians who meet certain conditions.
Many Americans are unaware that health aid to other countries directly benefits our own health, economic growth, and physical security.
A long-standing policy prevented federal immigration agents from making arrests at or near sensitive locations like hospitals and health centers. It was one of the first policies Donald Trump rolled back in January.
Health officials expect the outbreak to worsen because of low vaccine rates and undetected infections. Vaccine misinformation and new laws may make such situations more common and harder to contain.
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.
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.
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.
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.