Doctors at UT Health San Antonio are pressing for coordinated action to prevent the outbreak from spreading beyond an ...

On Jan. 30, 2020, World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed ...

About 200 medical residents and others gathered in Minneapolis to demand that federal agents leave the state in the name of ...

Nevada is one of 13 states with inadequate public health emergency preparedness, according to a recently released study. Since 2003, the annual “Ready or Not” report has evaluated states’ preparedness ...

Public health officials had an unprecedented tool for near-instant, widespread communication during the COVID-19 pandemic and mpox epidemic: social media. Now, one of the first studies of its kind, ...

The World Health Organization said it still considers mpox to be a public health emergency of international concern, its most serious classification for health alerts. The current public health ...

A night sky glowing with fire in the mountains, thousands of emergency personnel deployed, and hundreds of thousands more ordered to evacuate from their homes. A series of wildfires in Los Angeles ...

Ministry of Health and Sanitation has declared polio a public health emergency following confirmation of a new case in Blantyre, marking the first recorded case since 2022. The ministry said the virus ...