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Johns Hopkins, Yale and others are offering scientists and physicians guides for addressing misinformation and disinformation. It's an uphill battle.
Reported cases of dengue in the Americas nearly tripled to a record high of over 12.6 million this year, including 21,000 severe cases and over 7,700 deaths, the Pan American Health Organization ...
The CDC released some new flu data to the public on Friday, despite the Trump administration’s halt of nearly all scientific communication coming from federal health agencies.
In the United States, a public health emergency declaration releases resources meant to handle an actual or potential public health crisis. Recent examples include: Incidents of flooding; Severe weather [1] the 2009 swine flu pandemic, which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano described as a "declaration of emergency preparedness." [2]
Empowered the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue waivers allowing overcrowded hospitals to move swine flu patients to satellite facilities or other hospitals. [95] Months before this national emergency was declared, on April 26, 2009 Obama's acting director of Health and Human Services declared H1N1 a public health emergency. [96]
A health crisis is an emergency or complex health system that affects the public in one or more geographic areas from a particular locality to encompass the entire planet. Health crises generally have significant impacts on community health, loss of life, and on the economy. They may result from disease, industrial processes or poor policy. [1] [2]
Seasonal flu activity is elevated across most of the country, according to the latest reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and experts say this is expected to continue for ...
The critical and vast role that Change, a little-known health technology business, plays within America’s sprawling $4.5 trillion health system has been a revelation to nearly everyone in the ...