Public Health

A 54-year-old Missouri man died from an infection contracted after eating raw oysters, the St. Louis County Health Department said.

In a new report, the CDC analyzed 192 hospitalizations associated with Candida auris and found an estimated crude mortality rate of 34 percent. 

HHS shared a national framework for addressing rising rates of sexually transmitted infections June 8.  

Women who traveled to Mexico primarily for cosmetic procedures are at the center of the CDC's investigation into a multinational fungal meningitis outbreak, the agency reported June 8. So far there have been three deaths, and the agency is monitoring more…

Medicaid should cover hospital-based community violence prevention programs for gunshot patients and other violently injured victims enrolled in Medicaid, according to an op-ed published on amNY.

Putting a number of mental health services under one roof, such as primary care and substance use treatment, as well as inpatient facilities, is the guiding model of a new New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System behavioral center in…

 A woman in Washington has been detained after more than a year of refusing treatment for an active case of tuberculosis and repeatedly failing to appear in court, NPR reported June 3.

Healthcare might have bigger problems right now than the planet's climate crisis, but clinicians should recognize that the medical decisions they make today will affect the world tomorrow.

Healthgrades has partnered with a nonprofit organization to create a new LGBTQ+ Affirming Care Designation on its website. 

COVID-19 hospitalizations hit a record low at the end of May — this, after a hectic winter and spring that brought a surge in respiratory syncytial virus, flu and invasive strep.