public health

County commissioners say their new "Declaration of Racism as a Public Health Crisis" is the first step in acknowledging and addressing racial disparity.

Across the country, veterinarians and other researchers are scouring the animal kingdom for signs of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Amid political insinuations of inflated numbers and financial gain, health experts discuss how the deaths are reported and whether figures are in the ballpark.

Architects are already looking beyond COVID-19 to imagine the office of 2025 and beyond — an office that will keep us safe on the job, whatever pandemic virus strikes next.

On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen…

After terrorists slammed a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11, ambulances rushed scores of the injured to community hospitals, but only three of the patients…

The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century.Marshaled against a…

AUSTIN, Texas — It took three weeks, but Lawrence and Arlene Maze finally persuaded their younger son, Gregory, of Los Angeles, to get on a flight home to…

Florida law allows the state Surgeon General to enforce the isolation or quarantine of individuals believed to pose a threat to public health.