No matter where we live, we should ask what our state doing to protect our families against rancorous false cries against ...

Local health departments (LHDs) are an important source for screening and treating sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in rural communities. Yet, they oftentimes lack the resources needed to ...

Southwest District Health ended its COVID-19 vaccination program. Others in Texas, Florida and Michigan also pushed back ...

Now, that drought has become reality and state governments are slashing budgets that feed local health departments. Congress ...

states received a rush of funding from the federal government to bolster their fight against the disease. In many cases, that cash flowed into state and local health departments, fueling a ...

Local health departments in Maryland and federal government have begun offering free COVID-19 tests again to the public. The free test program was paused in March 2024 to low demand and restarted ...

Local health departments are an important source for screening and treating STDs in rural communities. While greater efforts are needed to standardize materials and processes at the regional level ...

Hundreds of emails from state and local health departments, obtained in records ... and interviews with health officials in five states with outbreaks. In a video of a small meeting at Central ...

Conservatives in Congress and Washington think tanks have proposed eliminating CDC programs they say are not central to fighting infectious diseases.