The Community Health Improvement Plan will run through 2027. It involves collaboration between public works, healthcare ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.

Another Lawrence tobacco retailer has had its license suspended for selling tobacco products to customers under 21 years of age, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced on Friday. The retailer ...

A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The party released its platform Saturday, pledging to tax the extremely wealthy — a plan it says would help finance tens of ...

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Amid the ongoing measles outbreak, many people might be wondering: do I need to get a measles vaccine booster?

A mum was left shocked and upset after her five-year-old daughter came home from school with a letter describing her as ...

Council chiefs say they want more powers to control the numbers of shops and bars licensed to sell alcohol in a bid to tackle health "challenges". The statement by members at Hartlepool Borough ...

I am a retired public health nurse with 27 years experience in communicable disease surveillance. I hunted down scary diseases to prevent others from getting sick. I worked with dreaded diseases such ...

A Labour councillor who quit the party over a so-called "rat tax" in Birmingham has welcomed a decision to temporarily drop ...