Prevention, a touchstone of public health, has landed in the crosshairs of the national health reform debate, with cost-effectiveness pitted against the sometimes incalculable value of a healthy life.
Though it is one of the world’s oldest diseases, rabies continues to surprise the vigilant public health researchers and workers who keep the disease at bay in the United States and labor to control the often fatal disease around the world.
Communities around the nation are being called on to amp up their efforts on physical activity, obesity and tobacco use as part of a new U.S. prevention initiative — and federal health officials will be giving them funding to do so.
Retail-based health clinics, which are expanding nationwide, are filling some gaps in the nation’s health care system, according to recent studies.
New greenhouse gas standards for cars and trucks from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are taking aim both at global warming and fuel economy.
In what is believed to be the largest study of U.S. streams to date, mercury contamination of fish has been found to be widespread and inescapable. The U.S. Geological Survey study, released in August, found mercury contamination in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country.
Briefs on the federal government's new food safety Web site, Medicare coverage of HIV testing, childhood immunization rates and the rising rate of alcohol-impaired female drivers.
A collection of briefs that underscore the need to reform the nation's health care system.