In a move that has sent shockwaves through the public health community, newly appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has placed a pause on key vaccine initiatives aimed at ...

Dr. Frances Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.

An infant too young to be vaccinated tested positive for measles in Austin, public health officials announced Friday. It’s the first reported case of the potentially deadly disease the city has seen ...

After making international headlines when an elderly female resident was found frozen in January, the Legacy Living and ...

For more than a decade, Dustin Brace, PhD, has worked various federal jobs, serving as an emergency 911 dispatcher for the ...

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000 but has since made a comeback which experts attribute to international travel and the rise of anti-vaccine sentiment. It remains to be seen ...

AI’s potential to detect and prevent disease is limitless, and allows us to address public health in a manner that is ...

Abolishing the DOE might sound bold, but it only deepens the fragmentation that has haunted America since its founding.

Texas is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades, as cases have jumped from two to 146 in just one month. A child is dead, 20 more are hospitalized and the worst is likely still ahead, public ...

Tax reforms are critical for all three objectives. Monetary tightening and interest rate hikes have reached their limits, and further progress with stabilisation requires fiscal policy actions to redu ...

Parents are still processing the upcoming closure of Trowbridge School due to concerns about high levels of lead hazards.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has reversed an obscure requirement called the Richardson Waiver, which ...