On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. declaring a public health emergency over COVID-19, people continue to lose their lives.

Researchers have long known that patients who leave emergency departments before medically advised use more emergency care services, are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital and face higher ...

On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the World ...

When politicians subordinate scientific institutions to electoral interests, they undermine immediate public health efforts ...

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

Area leaders continue to find challenges looking for affordable ways to provide residents with ambulance service in rural areas of the county.

Republican lawmakers, including those from disaster-prone areas, are backing President Trump’s calls to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  “We need a FEMA that looks like ...

COVID-19 has hit some countries far harder than others ... every 6 days and has reported more than 159,022,000 since the pandemic began.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...