US Senate panel to vote on RFK Jr.'s health secretary nomination
A U.S. Senate committee will vote Tuesday on whether to advance President Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
What Does the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Do?
If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with ...
Multiple health agency websites on HIV, contraception taken down to comply with executive orders
Government agency webpages about HIV, LGBTQ+ people and other public health topics were down Friday evening due to President ...
Health advisory issued for communities near Bay Area refinery fire
A fire at a Bay Area refinery has sent multiple people to the hospital and prompted a public health advisory in the impacted area.
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Why the state thinks it can save money by splitting up its health department
This week’s Behind the Bar explores a service freeze affecting people with disabilities and an improvement in the ...
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Pa. counties with their own health departments see benefits, new research shows
Most counties in Pennsylvania don’t have their own health departments. A study shows that matters for residents.
De Pere Health Department warns of norovirus amid 'suspected' cases in school district
Norovirus, often incorrectly referred to as the stomach flu, is believed to be the reason for so many absences in the Unified School District of De Pere.
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Delaware County’s Health Department Has Been Beneficial, Study Shows
When Pennsylvania counties like Delaware County opt to have their own health departments, local residents benefit, according ...
Health data, entire pages wiped from federal websites as Trump officials target 'gender ideology'
A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has rippled through the federal government as agencies scrambled to make changes ...
State health department reports first pediatric flu death of this season in Mississippi
The Mississippi State Department of Health confirmed the first pediatric flu death of the 2024-25 season on Friday, Jan. 24.
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Local Health Departments speak on tuberculosis outbreak
Following one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in U.S. history in Kansas—Doniphan, Andrew, and Buchanan County's ...
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Pa. counties with their own health departments see benefits, new research shows
The Delaware County Health Department started operations in April 2022, when it became the first new county health department in Pennsylvania in more than 30 years. (Courtesy of the Delaware County ...