Kansas measles cases rose to 71 and were found in 11 counties in south-central and southwest Kansas, the state reported ...

The moves reflect a shift that Americans may not fully realize, away from the very idea of public health: doing the work that ...

Federal policy changes are having spillover effects on everything from disease outbreak mitigation to long-term care ...

Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health ...

Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were ...

An active tuberculosis case has been reported in a student at Dillard High School, the Florida Department of Health confirmed to Broward County Public School officials ... year that a yearlong TB ...

Now, as Kansas grapples with a major tuberculosis outbreak ... before issuing health directives. Local health authorities currently empowered to limit public gatherings by order will only be ...

The Kansas House voted late Thursday night, and the Senate Friday morning, to advance a major rewrite of the state's public health laws ... A recent tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County ...

It actually demands tremendous trust and investment in community medicine and public health. Mwangi: So what does a TB outbreak in Kansas show us about the state of America’s public health system?

Public health is not optional — it is the foundation of a functioning, thriving society. Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.