Severe Birth Defects Plague South Sudan’s Oil Fields https://t.co/yjuSa9pPCh ...

Democratic governors across the country are joining together to counter the Trump administration's controversial changes to health care policy. 15 Democrat governors from the most populous blue states as well as Guam have formed the new governor's public health alliance. The goal is to share data about disease outbreaks, prepare for emergencies, deploy experts, and coordinate public health policy.Those are all responsibilities traditionally held by the CDC. Joining us now is one of the Democrats in that all ...

Exclusive: Governors across 15 states are forming a new public-health alliance to take on disease threats, saying funding cuts and policy changes by the Trump administration are putting their citizens at risk https://t.co/9fjVqbbb8s ...

Tonight, mounting measles cases are driving concerns in classrooms and forcing hundreds to quarantine. In South Carolina, the state's health department reporting today five new infections nearly doubling an in October outbreak in Spartanberg County where Dr. . Chris Lombardozi works.We've never seen this before. I hope not to see it again. There have been exposures to the disease in the region at a fitness center plus two schools according to officials forcing nearly 140 unvaccinated students to stay home r ...

Measles cases are bubbling up again and wreaking havoc on the school year after exposure to the disease. Health officials reporting more than 150 unvaccinated children between two schools in South Carolina have been forced out of the classroom and into quarantine for 3 weeks. The length of time it could take for symptoms like fever, a cough, or rash to emerge.You have to then stay away from school for 3 weeks, which is going to hurt your ability to learn. And that's just one of the many consequences I think ...

The idea that sunlight has benefits as well as risks, and that the balance depends on geography and skin colour, is a tricky public-health message to get across, says one dermatologist. But he nevertheless detects the beginnings of a shift https://t.co/BS3ACOptw8 ...

Over a thousand employees across the Department of Health and Human Services were notified late Friday that they'd lost their jobs. But then many of those fired began receiving suddenly these emails that were communicating that despite the earlier notice, they would no longer be let go. Confusing, right? Well, there's more to it. An HHS official also told MSNBC that around half of the firings were done in error. Vice President JD Vance was asked about the firings today and one word kept coming up repeatedly ...

Some researchers are calling on public-health experts to tone down the emphasis on avoiding the sun, and to acknowledge that the risks and benefits of exposure differ between those with lighter or darker skin https://t.co/d3k5aJkBs9 ...

Here's how the US government shutdown impacts the CDC, FDA, federal insurance programs and public health https://t.co/sDsuMymzPn ...

The growing popularity of motorcycles is fueling a public health and road-safety crisis in Latin America, says @JPSpinetto (via @opinion) https://t.co/7nMaqL3HSk ...