密歇根州发生的是该州历史上最大的甲型肝炎爆发。但密歇根州并不是独一无二的：在附近的俄亥俄州，印第安纳州和肯塔基州 – 以及远在圣地亚哥，盐湖城和纽约市 – 甲型肝炎病例数量急剧增加。
DETROIT -- The first signs that something was amiss surfaced in the weeks before the 2016 election, when public-health officials began to notice one patient after another walking into a clinic, or hospital emergency room in the Detroit metropolitan area complaining of the same symptoms: nausea and vomiting, pains in their stomach and joints,
“While food assistance, public health insurance, and other programs have certainly had a mitigating effect on poverty for many families, the fact remains that in the United States young children have close to a one in two chance of living on the brink of poverty.”
(REPORT) --- Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Using the latest available data from the American Community Survey, NCCP researchers found that in 2015, while 30 percent
New database created to let consumers know if personal care products contain carcinogens, but ‘trade secrets’ claim lets companies skirt transparency
Corporate power seems to be thwarting the public's right to know if the personal care products they use contain potentially harmful ingredients. As a result of the California Safe Cosmetics Act, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) earlier this month rolled out a searchable database through which consumers could see if their
None hurt in the derailment of oil-hauling train, but 2,400 asked to evacuate while air quality is tested.
CASSELTON, N.D. (AP) — Many residents evacuated a southeastern North Dakota town overnight after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, and officials warned that acrid smoke could blow into the area. No one was hurt in Monday's derailment of the mile-long train that sent a great fireball and plumes of black smoke skyward about a
Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico and Ecuador argue in the leaked draft that prohibition hasn’t worked and only benefits drug cartels and paramilitary groups.
Over the weekend, the Guardian reported it had obtained a copy of a leaked United Nations’ document that revealed many countries are dissatisfied with the results of the U.S.-led “War on Drugs,” and have outlined a new, more-forgiving policy when it comes to the use of illegal substances. According to the Guardian, many Latin American countries
Mini-cigars and flavored tobacco are holding up youth tobacco use. Can New York’s 21-and-under smoking ban stop it?
During the course of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 12-year-tenure in office, he oversaw a litany of social health reforms to the nation’s largest city — including the banning of trans fats in restaurants, regulation of tanning salons, the requirement that calories must be posted on menus and the failed attempt to ban store-bought soft
