South Africa’s Department of Agriculture has been struggling to contain and prevent the further spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a virus that infects livestock and impacts negatively on both ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

Surveillance is a foundational function of public health, enabling the systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of health data to plan prevention, ...

With the federal government cutting vital programs and reducing the public health workforce (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alone lost roughly 3,000 employees in 2025), many states and ...

Researchers have found a potential link between vitamin D deficiency and a higher rate of hospitalization for respiratory ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of "exhausted" white blood cells ...

When making rules on fine particulate matter and ozone limits, the EPA will no longer calculate the monetary value of lives ...

President Donald Trump has officially withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO). The move is more ...

Health benefits of avocados include protecting heart health and improving satiety and cognitive function. They provide healthy fats, antioxidants, and minerals.

From street-level measurements to long-term health studies, researchers are building a clearer picture of the impact of ...

Research analyzing 11.5 million births finds no association between community water fluoridation and reduced birth weight, ...

Two studies conducted by researchers at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome campus, may pave the way for a new non-surgical treatment for craniosynostosis, a condition characterized by ...