Dr. Edward Simmer has been the target of people upset over the COVID pandemic response even though he started working for the state in 2021.

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explains why you should want Dr. Edward Simmer, Gov. Henry McMaster’s nominee to be the ...

Dr. Edward Simmer, nominee to lead Department of Public Health, rebuked false claims against him during confirmation hearing.

Columnist David Lauderdale writes that Gov. Henry McMaster’s defense of Dr. Edward Simmer in the face of lies is admirable ...

For the first time in more than a decade, the South Carolina Department of Health says the latest numbers show a drop in ...

SC Gov. Henry McMaster's pick to lead new SC Department of Public Health attacked because he supports COVID, other vaccines, ...

The number of overdose deaths dropped for the first time since 2014. But mixtures, like the ominously dubbed Gray Death, are ...

A newly-released report shows the Palmetto State recorded a decrease in drug overdoses in 2023, marking the first such drop ...

The doctor who would be the first director of South Carolina’s newly organized health agency has a vision of reducing infant ...

Dr. Edward Simmer, GOP Gov. Henry McMaster’s nominee to run the state's new Department of Public Health, testified in a ...

Fewer people died from drug overdoses in South Carolina in 2023 than during the previous year, but Horry County and others ...