Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News

Laborers have suffered in extreme heat triggered by climate change. Deaths aren’t inevitable, and employers can save lives by providing ample water and breaks, researchers say.

So far, all nine cases reported nationally this year at dairy and poultry farms have been mild, consisting of respiratory symptoms and eye irritation.

Scare tactics haven’t shifted, but more parents are falling for them. Here’s what the rhetoric gets wrong and how it endangers children.

The World Health Organization now confirms that many respiratory viruses are inhaled as airborne particles. The new framework implies that stopping transmission relies on costly measures like ventilation and masking.

In the wake of measles cases at a Broward school, Florida's surgeon general writes that the Department of Health “is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance” without urging the need for MMR vaccinations.

Thousands of people are still dying with COVID, but the federal government has mostly handed over responsibility to the people to weather the seasonal surges with their own strategies.

Public health initiatives have long been divisive, but the pandemic turned up the volume to painful levels in Florida, Texas and other states amid a surge of growing mistrust of scientific institutions.

Flu, COVID, and respiratory viruses kill thousands of Americans each year, but the latest batch of vaccines could save lives.

Clinicians, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines on face masks from the CDC might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.

The emergency response mechanisms that supported earlier vaccine campaigns are gone. As one expert wonders: How do we get boosters to people beyond Democrats, college graduates, and those with high incomes?