Public health agencies are under pressure to move faster, detect threats earlier, and make better decisions, even as their funding is cut and their authority reduced. While most public health agencies ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health officials work to connect the dots during the early stages of an outbreak. Maxiphoto/iStock via Getty Images Plus A cluster ...
Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. A study published recently in Annals of Internal Medicine confirmed what many clinicians had begun to suspect: ...
Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans - including those causing flu, COVID, whooping cough and tuberculosis ...
WASHINGTON — Wastewater surveillance for both prevalent and emerging pathogens can strengthen the nation’s infectious disease surveillance system, says a new report from the National Academies of ...
Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets and people at risk. By Emily Anthes Trupanion, a Seattle-based pet ...
Public health agencies are under pressure to move faster, detect threats earlier, and make better decisions, even as their funding is cut and their authority reduced. While most public health agencies ...