public health

The CDC offers guidance on what personal proactive equipment healthcare workers should use when caring for a patient with coronavirus.

No community is immune from disasters and emergencies. Here's how nurse leaders can do their best by planning for the...

Human-to-human transmission in China likely occurred from near the beginning.

Healthcare workers in Washington State are fighting the coronavirus with knowledge gained from treating the flu.

Influenza poses a far greater threat to Americans than the coronavirus from China that has made headlines around the world.

When it comes to where we die, the U.S. has reached a tipping point. Home is now the most common...

Heart rate, activity, and sleep data hold promise for population-level influenza tracking.

Medicaid expansion may have prevented up to 8,132 opioid overdose deaths in 2015 to 2017 in the 32 states that...

Since 2005, 162 rural hospitals have shuttered, with 60% of the closures occurring in southern states that did not expand...

Michael Dowling challenges healthcare CEOs nationwide to join campaign to stop the bloodshed.

It's been about a year since the hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., closed. The lessons for this community about meeting...

Severe obesity also projected to be more common, affecting nearly 25% of the population in 25 states.