Public Health

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) took the Senate floor Wednesday morning, asking for a vote over a proposal to enhance gun control laws, according to Vox. At the end of his 15-hour speech at 2 a.m. Thursday, Sen. Murphy declared the…

The FBI is investigating a threat written in graffiti in Louisville, Ky.-based Humana's Waterside Building, WLKY reported.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aenta responded to the deaths of two of its employees and a third employee who was wounded in a shooting at Orlando, Fla.-based LGBT nightclub Pulse, the Hartford Courant reported.

A 26-year-old Wyoming man died after shooting himself in the head outside of the emergency room at Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Butterworth Hospital on Wednesday. Police have determined there is no threat to the hospital or the nearby Grand Rapid…

When governments mandate chickenpox vaccinations, a sharp drop in the number of Google searches for the common childhood disease suggests seasonal outbreaks are significantly reduced, according to new research from Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan.

West Virginia had the greatest percentage drop in adults without health insurance from 2013 to 2015, according to findings from the CDC.

People ages 21 and under and pregnant women who have been exposed to the water in Flint, Mich., may be eligible for a Medicaid expansion program, Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced…

Louisiana's Medicaid program has a new name. Formerly "Bayou Health," it is now called "Health Louisiana," as of May 2, according to Nola.com.

Tom Frieden, MD. Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Frieden was named director of the CDC in 2009 by President Barack Obama. In that role, he leads the nation’s efforts to control health threats from infectious…

The volume of emergency room visits in San Diego County grew 40 percent from 2004 to 2014, while the county's population grew just 7 percent in that time, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune report.