The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

Stay-at-home measures should have been last resort due to harmful effects, says epidemiologist

Professor Mark Woolhouse said the Government was not given the full range of options in November 2020.

Last year, nearly 40% of U.S. households reported experiencing either COVID-19, the flu, or RSV in January.

Italy’s far-right-led government has approved a budget for next year that aims to bolster public health services, encourage families to have more children and put more money in the pockets of low- and medium-wage earners

With no aid in sight, medics sound alarm over public health disaster as hospitals are crammed and bodies pile up on.

Kentucky’s Department of Public Health has launched a new online dashboard to help make up-to-date information on both COVID-19 and influenza cases readily available.

TCEQ is proposing to quietly adopt its 17-year-old cancer standard that leading scientists and public health officials call inadequate.

Without public hearings, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is proposing to adopt its 17-year-old standard that scientists and public health officials say fails to account for cumulative air pollution.

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