Reports indicate the Trump administration plans to resume expulsions under the Centers for Disease Control’s Title 42 authority. The measure, first used by the Trump administration to combat COVID-19, allowed immigration officials to summarily expel migrants within minutes of an illegal entry to reduce the spread of the contagion.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) issued statements to the Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times on Wednesday stating that its experts do not believe the surge in respiratory infection cases at Chinese hospitals is unusual and no emergency declarations have been issued.
San Francisco’s Department of Public Health has reportedly hired a “fat acceptance” and “body positive” activist as a “weight stigma” consultant.
The overwhelming majority of Americans support Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reforms to the food industry and public health, a poll reveals.
Cases of Dengue fever are rising along the Texas-Mexico border with rates in the Lone Star State reaching levels not seen in more than two decades. In Mexico, hospitalizations and deaths from complications of the virus are also on the rise.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” New York Times Health Policy Correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg stated that “infectious disease experts” worry about NIH Director nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya because during the coronavirus pandemic, he opposed things like “school closures and
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning about an increase in cases of a meningitis-inducing invasive disease that kills one in six sufferers.
The head of the Chinese National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, Wang Hesheng, insisted during a press conference this weekend that the Chinese Communist Party would be prepared for any future pandemics caused by an unknown “Disease X.”
Syphilis rates are soaring to levels unseen in the U.S. since the 1950s, a federal government report on sexually transmitted diseases in adults set out Tuesday.
Health experts from Sweden have warned of an “alarming antibiotic resistance” being developed in some patients in Ukraine.
During an interview with NPR aired on Tuesday’s “All Things Considered,” White House COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha stated that while public health officials have made mistakes that have to be owned and addressed, there are many people who “used every
Paris has been warned of a potential rat invasion amid the garbage collector strike which has seen tonnes of trash pile up on the streets.
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that a lawsuit challenging the FDA’s mifepristone approval is an “attack on the very foundation of our public health system.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) argued that we have to “take a public health approach” on guns “to lower the risks and the incidences of people who are at risk of harming others
Condoms will be provided for free to minors in French pharmacies, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Twitter on Friday.
The public need to change their behaviour in order to reduce air pollution as it is as dangerous as Covid, England’s top medical officer said.
Wealthy progressives are using healthcare credentials to campaign against the Title 42 border barrier that protects ordinary Americans from millions of economic migrants.
Bill Gates met with Rishi Sunak’s counterpart, Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer, to reportedly discuss climate and “global health”.
Staff at an NHS facility in the UK have come under scrutiny with abuse allegations emerging after an undercover investigation.
LONDON (AP) – Stinking piles of garbage on the streets of Edinburgh are threatening the health and safety of the public, a health authority warned Saturday as strikes by garbage collectors in the Scottish capital moved into their ninth day.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Vice Chair Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) argued that people will go to the polls in the 2022 midterms over the issue of gun violence, “Because we have a public health crisis here.”
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Díaz-Balart Reports,” House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force member Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) advocated for treating gun violence as an issue of public health and stated that doing so “makes all the sense in
Rep.Chris Smith said Joe Biden’s effort to amend International Health Regulations will give the WHO and Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus more power.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is pushing for a “global pandemic treaty” to be ratified at its World Health Assembly, which begins on May 22. The treaty would give W.H.O. tremendous increases in power and funding, transferring much of the authority for pandemic control from member nations to the U.N. agency.
Government authorities in northwest China’s Xi’an city recently launched a criminal investigation into a local resident surnamed Yao for allegedly “obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases” by failing to self-isolate after knowingly contracting the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported Tuesday.
Doctors will need to lead efforts to deal with the effects of air pollution Prof Chris Whitty said in a meeting with London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The CEO of a major medical equipment manufacturer has said that those who refuse a jab, in his mind, should be ‘automatically considered’ to have forgone the right to COVID treatment in hospital at public expense.
Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner, said Democrats plan to include an amnesty proposal within ostensibly infrastructure-focused bill.
Richmond, Virginia, has joined over 200 American localities in declaring racism a public health crisis, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
“I want to be the first good governor we’ve had in a very long period of time,” said Larry Elder of his campaign for governor in California.
Indonesian police shut down 20 McDonald’s restaurants in Jakarta on Wednesday after the release of a new K-Pop-themed meal curated by the Korean boy band BTS caused food delivery drivers to flood McDonald’s locations across the city, creating massive crowds and lines.
A majority of marriages in Britain’s Pakistani community being between first cousins is wreaking a terrible toll on public health, with stillbirths, birth defects, and disabilities far higher than they would otherwise be.
Israelis were no longer required to wear masks outside on Sunday, in another step on the path back to normality as the country’s aggressive vaccination drive saw coronavirus rates take a steep plunge.
American Airlines is under fire for letting President Joe Biden’s Climate Envoy John Kerry violate its mask mandate without consequence.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the San Francisco Department of Public Health has issued guidance on having safe sex in the coronavirus era.
Former New York City mayor and failed 2020 Democratic Party presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has a new title: as of Wednesday he can once more boast of the approval of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) as one of its specially chosen “Global Ambassadors.”
Public health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci will appear in a discussion alongside Chinese scientist Zhong Nanshan — who claimed last year the Chinese coronavirus originated not in Wuhan, China, but in “multiple birthplaces around the globe” at an online public health forum for the University of Edinburgh in March, Chinese media outlets reported this week.
Public health officials in Los Angeles County ordered a ban on outdoor dining — without evidence linking outdoor eating or drinking to a claimed increase in local coronavirus infections — on Tuesday. The prohibition becomes effective at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News over the weekend that, after Democrat presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden oversaw 60 million Americans getting infected with swine flu—H1N1—America cannot trust Biden to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
Medical experts are urging the adoption of “focused protection” to replace current coronavirus lockdown policies that, they say, have produced nothing less than “devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
