Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases ...

A stronger firearm access prevention bill in Virginia will save lives if Gov. Youngkin signs it, Paul Nestadt and Alex ...

Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S.

The Oak Park Public Health department thought that it had lost federal funding sponsoring a staff member’s place in the ...

Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...

Three months into 2025, the United States has surpassed the total number of measles cases in the country for all of last year ...

DOGE’s first batch of published savings was riddled with errors, with experts pointing out that the math wasn’t adding up in ...

All U.S. population growth in 2022-23 happened because of immigration, rather than births, for the first time since 1850, a ...

Measles had been declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Now the disease is back with a vengeance. In February, an unvaccinated Texan child became the first person in a decade to die from measles in ...

Seeking to serve as a counterweight to the Trump administration, a flurry of mostly blue states has created initiatives — and ...

In Florida, the number of kindergartners with mandatory vaccinations decreased to 88% in the 2023-24 school year from 94% in ...

Vaccines are a modern miracle, saving an estimated 154 million lives in the last half-century. Vaccine skepticism is a ...