An administration shift is putting a burden on hospitals and undercutting the integrity of data on the pandemic, current and former members of a federal advisory panel said.
As the coronavirus spread on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona, medical teams sought out residents who might have been exposed. The effort paid off in unexpected ways.
Similar to President Donald Trump, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has been particularly aggressive at forcing out top officials, including most recently the state’s top public health officer, faulting others when things go wrong.
A Circle of Blue investigation found that more than 1.5 million households in a dozen large U.S. cities owe $1.1 billion to their water departments. Some city leaders have started to take note of the burdens.
Vaccines are among the safest medical products in the world — but only because of the intense rigor of the clinical trials that test their safety and effectiveness.
President Trump's plan to apply up to $45 billion in federal disaster aid to fund COVID-19 unemployment benefits could deplete the nation's primary disaster relief fund while providing only moderate relief for 16.3 million laid-off Americans, experts say.
The lockdown measures instituted in response to the coronavirus have dramatically reduced greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution around the world. But these measures will have little long-term effect on climate change, a new study suggests.
New research shows that adding more fresh vegetables and whole grains to school meals helped curb childhood obesity for vulnerable children, prompting questions about recent USDA rollbacks.
A new study found levels of the widespread herbicide and its breakdown products reduced, on average, more than 70 percent in both adults and children after just six days of eating organic.
"Many of the chemical profiles that we see in cetaceans are similar to the types of chemical profiles that we see in humans who live in those coastal areas."
