Doctors warn of serious health risks from inhaling dried pigeon droppings, urging better municipal handling and public ...

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the ...

One Indiana county's health department on Wednesday, July 9, confirmed a case of measles. There's no outbreak, but experts ...

Last month, mayors in 14 Nunavik communities alleged there were budget cuts to the health board and demanded for them to be ...

Cuts to public health and Medicaid don’t make costs disappear — they just shift them downstream to the health care system. Hospitals are already seeing the fallout: longer wait times, overburdened ...

Recent health news has seen a rise in diseases that we thought were long-gone. With the historical significance of these ...

The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.

While measles symptoms typically resolve in a few weeks, the virus can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients, ...

Most pandemics, including COVID-19, began with zoonotic pathogens, and the next one, dubbed Disease X, likely will too.

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

Amina Ahmad leads a mission to humanize tech in African public health, merging empathy with innovation for lasting impact.