Federal policy changes are having spillover effects on everything from disease outbreak mitigation to long-term care ...

The 2024-to-2025 flu season hit a 15-year record of 216 pediatric deaths as of late April, according to CDC data published May 2. Last season saw 207 pediatric flu deaths, while the most fatal ...

His latest co-edited book, All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders, explores the public health impacts of punitive ... on behalf of law enforcement exhibit ...

Eleven billion dollars that were earmarked and appropriated to stop outbreaks and strengthen public health have simply ... connect those hardest to reach with evidence-based information in a ...

Representative soil sample testing done in a Los Angeles County Public Health study found a higher percentage of samples with lead levels above health-based screening thresholds taken from parcels ...

New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other toxic metals at homes destroyed by January’s catastrophic wildfires and cleared by ...

"While these are not new challenges, they continue to worsen because of increased work coupled with drastic public health cuts at the federal level as well as chronic underfunding from all levels ...

In all but one case, those levels fell below 15 ppb upon retesting. None fell below 1 ppb. The city health department does not plan to conduct blanket water testing across MPS, Public Information ...