This week, Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Aundrea Loftley about the health benefits of taking a brief walk after eating. Dr. Loftley is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an endocrinologist at MUSC.

GAYLORD —The equipment inside a public health lab here sits shiny, new and eerily quiet. These rooms are dark. Three lab staff have been laid off. In Saginaw, the job posting for an epidemiologist at ...

Mecklenburg County Public Health has been awarded accreditation with honors by the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation Board (NCLHD). According to the Mecklenburg County website ...

The Nevada State Legislature has only a fortnight remaining before it must gavel out, which means it’s crunch time for the hundreds of bills still trying to make it to Gov. Joe Lombardo’s desk. Friday ...

The massive overhaul of the Medicaid program being debated in Congress could lead to millions of people losing their health coverage, which would impact women and families in rural areas the most ...

The $62 million epidemiology and laboratory capacity grant allowed the county to update its public health lab, giving it access to modernized testing capabilities. Rudman said that because of the ...

Amid a deluge of cuts to federal spending, the Trump administration has canceled three grants totaling $85.6 million to Santa Clara County that helped fund public health initiatives related to the ...

The open house will include some proposed numbers for County priorities. They include public safety, housing and homelessness, behavioral health, vulnerable populations and environmental ...

“We’re a rural area that deals with nonrural problems because of the amount of visitors we have,” Dare County EMS chief Jennie Collins told Carolina Public Press ... farther south along the coast are ...

After losing friends to suicide, Wade Jefferson, a student at the University of South Carolina, wanted to work towards squashing stigmas around mental health. He started the college’s Mental ...