The federal government remains shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the shutdown is affecting services across the ...

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Abrupt terminations at the Mississippi Department of Health earlier this month removed the directors of about a dozen ...

Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are joining forces to track, and for the first time in Colorado, ...

Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

The shutdown is also affecting the availability of numbers economists count on to gauge the national employment picture.

A spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Health said all public health essential services are still available with no ...

Columbus Public Health's employee union is calling on the city not to outsource lab testing, saying it will cause delays and ...

The NYC Department of Health is quietly planning to hire an outside consultant to train and set up protocols to protect ...

As politicians remain locked in a standoff to reopen the government, federal workers in Massachusetts don't know whether they ...

After a week of chaos and confusion, as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees described it, the fates of more ...

The Monroe County Health Department is scrambling to figure out a way to deliver state-mandated public health services such as vaccinations and communicable disease investigations after IU Health said ...