Health & Science

The DRC's government reports that burial teams, health workers and responders are being threatened as often as three or four times a week.

A study recently published in Health Affairs found that consolidation in California has caused health care costs to spike for both patients and insurers.

New quality measures are shining a light on troubled nursing homes covered by Medicare and Medicaid.

The teams will assess infection prevention practices and deploy beginning in November, according to Health Commissioner Dr. Shereef Elnahal.

While many individuals are looking for nurse practitioner positions, there aren’t enough RNs and licensed practical nurses.

He called it Aamin Ambulance. ("Aamin" is Somali for "faithful.")

While the bulk of fatal overdoses still happen in urban areas, the rural overdose rate has increased to slightly surpass that of cities.

Hypoxia is a condition in which the ocean water close to the seafloor has such low levels of dissolved oxygen that the organisms living down there die.

Nerve-racking. Sickening. Facing your fear can be all of that — and sometimes a little thrilling, too.

Health officials said they have teams at the facility monitoring the infection, and the center has closed to new patients.

Rural Americans willing to allow people from outside their communities to help with the opioid epidemic.

Last year the world put nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, and emissions have been rising.

The CDC is providing technical assistance to the state Health Department.

More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year.