The Louisiana Department of Health has ended all vaccine events and instructed staff not to encourage immunizations, according to an internal memo that was sent to staff Thursday and obtained by ...

Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a public health department.

California’s Department of Health Care Services would lose over $119 million toward substance abuse services for youth in at least 18 counties. Los Angeles County would lose more than $45 ...

Benjamin was responding to recent actions by the Louisiana Department of Health. As first reported by NPR, the state health department informed its employees that they were not allowed to promote ...

L.A. County Public Health director Barbara Ferrer discusses concerns over federal grants, what programs could be affected, and what that might mean for bird flu and dengue.

Yet Dr. Sanmi Areola, director of the Metro Public Health Department in Nashville, worries that laws passed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are so broad that they would limit the ability to ...

California and more than a dozen states are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over the termination of $11 billion in “critical” public ...