STAT’s Eric Boodman visited Healthy Start case manager Malaika Milele Gardner in New Orleans recently, spending time with her ...

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As the holiday season arrives, we urge residents to prioritize safety in the kitchen and maintain food at correct temperatures,” Chris Westover, environmental health director of the Monroe County ...

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — The closing of a health center in rural New Hampshire has raised concerns that the projected cuts in ...

The toll from cervical cancer is highest in lower-income countries, which often lack screening programs that can result in ...

After saying last month it had discontinued its weekly flu report, the Arkansas Department of Health has reversed course, ...

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Children in Texas are becoming infected with whooping cough at an alarmingly high rate, coinciding with a noticeable decline ...

According to the United Nations, the number of people with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980, and the prevalence of the disease continues to rise, particularly in low- and middle-income ...