A satellite image shows Hurricane Milton approaching Florida. The Category 5 hurricane is expected to cause catastrophic damage when it makes landfall, with a Public Health Emergency being ...

Hospitals, emergency departments and health care facilities across Florida are reopening after they evacuated patients and canceled elective surgeries due to Hurricane Milton. BayCare health care ...

Florida health-care workers exhausted as Hurricane Milton approaches “It gets stressful. You don’t know if you’re going to come back to a home,” a Florida paramedic says.

As Florida struggles to recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Milton, and the lingering effects from Helene two weeks earlier, the long-term health consequences could be devastating, studies ...

The Florida Department of Health is urging people to avoid coming into contact with floodwaters brought by Hurricane Milton, warning they could be contaminated with a form of flesh-eating bacteria … ...

Good morning. I’m Sabrina Malhi, a Post reporter covering national health-care issues, including those related to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. My colleague David Ovalle and I read reports of ...

Hurricane Milton also comes after Hurricane Helene, which already devastated parts of the country. “Morales is having to confront the reality of a second disaster while the first one is still fresh.

One study from April 2023 found the prevalence of mental health disorders ranged from 5.8% to 87.6% for mental health disorders, with rates as high as 84% for anxiety, 52.7% for depression and 52% ...

As Hurricane Milton barrels toward the Florida coast, a Public Health Emergency has been declared across the state. The PHE was declared on Tuesday by Department of Health and Human Services ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature examining nearly 500 tropical cyclones from 1930 to 2015 in the U.S. suggested that big storms lead to thousands of extra deaths ...