Public Health

A new report from the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health shows 70% of U.S. counties do not have sufficient mental health resources to support new mothers, including 157 counties that are "maternal mental health dark zones," which are areas…

An unsanitary factory in India manufactured over-the-counter eye drops that the FDA last month warned consumers to stop using, according to inspection reports obtained by Bloomberg. 

The number of kindergarten students who received a vaccine exemption has reached an all-time high, a Nov. 10 CDC report found.

Gargling with salt water and rinsing nasal passages may ease COVID-19 symptoms and lower the risk of hospitalization, new research suggests. 

The first study to investigate long COVID-19 and allergic diseases has found a link between the two, according to research published in Clinical & Experimental Allergy on Nov. 8. 

The majority of hospital staff received their flu shot during last year's respiratory virus season, while less than half of nursing home staff received one. Meanwhile, less than a quarter of healthcare personnel across both settings had gotten up-to-date COVID-19…

Getting both a COVID-19 vaccine and the flu shot in one fell swoop is just as effective as getting the two jabs separately, a study published Nov. 8 in JAMA has determined. 

Abortion policy and pro-choice candidates sustained victories in several states in what was the second election cycle since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Compared to 2012, more than 10 times as many congenital syphilis cases were reported in 2022, marking a 1,022% jump in newborn syphilis cases, according to CDC data released Nov. 7.

Central Maine Medical Center has discharged the first of three patient survivors of the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston that killed 18 and wounded 13.