Public Health

Through counseling and advocacy, primary care providers can play an important role in preventing firearm injury, according to experts.

The first known U.S. case of an mpox clade that has historically been more transmissible and deadly was detected in California in a person who had recently returned from travel to Eastern Africa, according to health officials.

I initially became hooked on ID when I was a medical student rounding on ID service and was evaluating a person with pneumonia who had just expectorated purulent sputum.

Alcohol use increased during the COVID-19 pandemic but has not declined since its end, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Seven percent of dairy farm workers in two states had evidence of a recent infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza, according to a new report published Thursday.

On Nov. 3, most of the United States will “fall back” by an hour in the shift from daylight saving time to standard time, which will last through the winter months.

A new Lancet Public Health commission called for stronger policy and regulatory controls worldwide to reduce the impact of commercial gambling on public health and wellbeing.

LOS ANGELES — Public health officials could have detected H5 influenza in wastewater days before highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed in cattle earlier this year, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

Brazil became the 20th country or territory in the world to eliminate lymphatic filariasis as a public health crisis after nearly 3 decades of efforts to stop the painful, disfiguring parasitic infection, according to WHO.

A pre-post-quasi-experimental study conducted at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut, revealed that using disinfectant wipes treated with a novel color additive left hospital rooms 69.2% cleaner than using regular bleach wipes.