On June 1, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) ushered in a new era of global health security with the adoption of the updated International Health Regulations (IHR). These regulations, a ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a ...

Amid growing public debate on nicotine products, public health experts and clinicians have urged policymakers to consider nicotine gums up to 4 mg out of prescription regulations as per practices in ...

Here is the Introduction; the full article is here: Regulatory constraints on the provision of truthful information to consumers about tobacco products may be having deadly consequences. Different ...

The Trump administration is set to use a public health regulation drafted during the early days of the COVID pandemic to deny immigrants access to asylum. The regulation, taking effect on Wednesday, ...

It’s perhaps hard to imagine today, but we have two landmark books to thank for some of the U.S. government’s most vital public health regulations. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, published in 1905, ...

Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday she is pressing Steward Health Care to adhere to a state Department of Public Health regulation that hospital owners must give 120 days notice before any medical ...

Gun violence survivors and activists attend a vigil on December 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. The vigil marked the 11th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, ...