public health

A new report detailing how prepared states are for the next big public health emergency places California in the middle of the pack, not among the “very prepared” nor among the “low-level” preparedness.

Health leaders once again are warning about a triple threat of viruses, with cases of COVID, the flu and RSV on the rise as the holiday season begins. Bob Redell reports.

A winter epidemic is looming as RSV is to blame. But this time, health experts say it’s children who are most at risk. Kris Sanchez reports.

Health officials authorized a plan to give people one-fifth the usual dose, citing research suggesting that the reduced amount is about as effective.

The nonprofit Trust for America’s Health says chronic underfunding is creating health inequities in the battle against COVID-19. The nonprofit’s CEO Dr. J. Nadine Gracia discusses the need for a $4 billion investment in public health infrastructure.

Top U.S. health officials say the country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped despite rising case numbers and limited vaccine supplies.

Monkeypox is about to get more serious as the World Health Organization is poised to declare it a public health emergency. Kris Sanchez reports.

Tens of thousands of Americans die from gun murders and suicides each year, and many more are wounded, leaving families in grief and putting a strain on the health care system. Gun violence is a leading cause of premature death in the country, and in 2020, more kids died from gun violence than they did in automobile crashes. After the...

In the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop pushed for cigarettes to be seen as a public health issue. Today, “guns are the cigarettes of 2022,” says Harvard physician Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, who joined LX News to discuss the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Some European countries are being urged to “have a little more patience” as Covid restrictions are lifted.

Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.

Omicron has almost completely replaced the delta variant of Covid-19 in England, a new study has found.

A huge new global study found that drug-resistant bacterial infections played a part in almost 5 million deaths in 2019.

Infectious disease experts have warned against complacency with Covid-19, despite health officials claiming infection is practically inevitable for most people.

Recent wastewater analysis from a variety of sources across the country indicates an unprecedented surge in infections at a time when millions of people are forced to reconsider travel and holiday plans.