The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

Federal datasets began disappearing from public view on Jan. 31, 2025, in response to executive orders from President Donald Trump. Among those were the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which asks respondents about their gender identity and sexual orientation and tracks behaviors like smoking and…

In Europe ten people died from measles in 2024, and the US has had several major outbreaks. Bird flu has affected dairy herds in 17 US states from North Carolina to California and has just been reported in cats. So far, it is reluctant to spread among people, although people…

President’s slashes to higher education institutions and research funding threaten US public health, workers say

In the U.S., the CDC calls vaccination “the best defense” against becoming infected with measles.

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease

A proposed bill in 2021 would have put the HHS secretary in charge of censoring COVID-19 contrarianism on social media.

The field’s failure to integrate medical services in the mid-20th century set the stage for its current troubles

The U.S. government’s decision to stop sharing air quality data from embassies and consulates worldwide has worried some local scientists and experts who say the data was vital for people to be aware of air quality and monitor their government's progress in improving public health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has invited some employees back to work, just two weeks after laying them off