Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

The abrupt halt to U.S. involvement in the World Health Organization has caused considerable and immediate uncertainty for global health. But it can also signal a new opportunity to fix at last ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Public Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry said on Friday that she is hopeful that Clallam and Jefferson counties will move out of flu season in the next few weeks.

With the recent measles outbreaks in West Texas and New Mexico, public health officials are urging individuals to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine if they haven’t already.

Recent cancellation of federally funded grants results in significant changes for the university's global health activities ...

Public health officials are warning that declining immunization rates, driven in large part by misinformation, and the lack ...

Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...

Providing well-tolerated, preventive TB treatment can reduce the risk of developing active TB disease by 85 per cent in the ...

While public opinions of the CDC and the WHO shifted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, recent survey results indicate that ...