Hundreds of Seattle Public Schools students without proof of a complete vaccination record were barred from attending class Jan. 8, the Seattle Times reports.
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An examination of U.S. death certificate data shows that alcohol-related deaths doubled over the last two decades, from 35,914 in 1999 to 72,558 in 2017.
HHS has declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico after a series of earthquakes and aftershocks in the region this week.
As today’s healthcare system evolves in response to clinical, economic, and political pressures, the role of Emergency Departments (EDs) is evolving as well.
Local hospitals were notified of a "mass casualty event" Jan. 4 after a bus accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike left five dead and 60 injured, local CBS affiliate KDKA-TV reports.
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Physicians, paramedics and other healthcare professionals are accustomed to treating medical conditions. But they are also increasingly part of efforts to end human trafficking, according to The Washington Post.
States introduced 944 proactive reproductive health bills and enacted 147 of those bills into law in 2019 — the highest number enacted since the National Institute for Reproductive Health began keeping track four years ago, according to an NIRH report…
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston opened a Center for Violence Prevention Dec. 18, a facility that will research the causes of violence and identify tools for intervention, according to the Houston Chronicle.
A 10-bed microhospital that Allegheny Health Network planned to open in early January won't open until the end of the month, according to Trib Live.
A Nevada-based vaccination organization said it had to cancel two in-person events in December after anti-vaccination activists launched an online harassment campaign against it, according to the Sacramento Bee.