Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

The signers acknowledged that leaders of their professions had previously condemned a street protest against lockdown ...

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Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...

Today we're talking about the Antonine Plague that took the lives of 5 million people over 14 years during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. Today, we're talking smallpox, war, false prophets, and ...

Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

You may never find yourself in a treatment center halfway across the world, but when suffering is close enough to touch, most ...

A group of doctors and public health organizations filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on Monday in response to a ...

Scientific progress has improved the environment and human health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services ...

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

You won. The damn nursing home hasn’t been sold, and it hasn’t been closed,” the county board chair tells residents as a ...