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Alabama has 44 certified SANEs for the entire state. Louisiana has 42. Mississippi only has 6 — for a population of almost ...

The measure, part of a larger package, also slashes $9.4 billion in federal spending, targeting programs in the State Department, USAID, and global health initiatives, as well as emergency shelters ...

The Trump administration has declared stemming the flow of fentanyl precursors from China a priority in trade talks with Beijing, an effort that follows a spate of initiatives by the Biden ...

The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets.

Some appointees hold some of Kennedy’s more critical views on vaccines, while other picks appear to be olive branches to ...

Despite being declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern 10 months ago, the mpox outbreak is not over. And in places like Sierra Leone, it is spiralling. Paul Adepoju reports.

Connecticut is facing a silent unraveling of its public health infrastructure. In March, more than $155 million in federal public health aid was abruptly cut, destabilizing the foundation of care ...

But they are responding to this crisis with fewer resources because federal officials haven’t declared it a public health emergency. The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts ...

Federal resources and personnel are being deployed to the state. North Carolina became the latest state to have a public health emergency declared by U.S. health officials in response to Hurricane ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread. The WHO issued an emergency ...

Aug 13 (Reuters) - Africa's top public health body declared what it termed a "public health emergency of continental security" on Tuesday over an outbreak of mpox that has spread from the ...