By Lauren J. Young on May 9, 2023 Hundreds lined up in below-freezing temperatures to get free COVID test kits at the Gaithersburg Library branch in Gaithersburg, Md., on January 10, 2022. This was part of a program to distribute test kits to Montgomery County residents at local libraries. Each person would receive two boxes, each containing two kits. Credit: Michael S....
by Phil Ciciora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign legal scholar argues that the state of California’s proposal to manufacture and distribute insulin at cost could be a game-changer for curbing out-of-control price increases on insulin and a boon to public health....
Both San Francisco and New York state declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, as they struggle to gain access to more resources to help contain the spread of the virus. About 40 percent of the 4,907 monkeypox cases recorded in the United States have been diagnosed in California and New York. “This declaration...
Public health officials in the U.S. could take heart at the end of the summer. Even as the new coronavirus continued to spread, fewer people were winding up in the hospital because of Covid-19, and fewer were dying. Now, as the seasons turn and the global death toll from Covid-19 tops 1 million, signs suggest...
