Healthbeat's New York reporter discusses West Nile virus on WNYC

‘They get to reintroduce public health to America,’ says former assistant surgeon general as he shares insights on his students, outbreaks and the crisis at CDC.

Influenza is arriving earlier, spreading faster, and sending more people to the hospital - already.

I understood dementia in theory. But when it hit home — my home — none of the textbooks could prepare me for that pain. And what hurt most was this: There was nowhere for my father to go.

I saw a client that morning, wound tight with despair. I ushered him inside and sat with him. He cried; I listened. When his sobs finally slowed, he began to speak. The words he whispered that day have stayed with me ever since.

A new Emory survey finds that Georgia parents continue to trust routine childhood vaccines — including the newborn hepatitis B shot — even as shifting federal guidance fuels confusion.

Trenton Daniel's reporting career has taken him from South Florida, to Haiti, to New York City. Here's what he's learned and how he'll cover public health for New Yorkers.