Gregory Aune was 16 when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Aune spent a year enduring grueling treatment, losing over 70 pounds. But he survived. His experience motivated him to pursue a clinical career…

COVID-19 has changed a lot of practices for frontline healthcare workers, from screening employees and patients at entrances to wearing masks all the time. The pandemic has also taught us more about variants. As…

If your child tests positive for COVID-19, make sure to separate them from others and follow steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in your household. ​This means your child should not go to school,…

Most of us know what rehabilitation is. It is care that can help you get back to normal or improve skills after a disease or injury.   Unfortunately, rehab only take place retroactively—after there is an…

COVID-19 tests given at school are supervised by trained professionals, and the tests are quick, easy, and painless. Depending on the type of test, you’ll get the results in as ​little as 15 minutes, while…

If your school offers COVID-19 testing, it’s important to sign your child up because regular testing at school helps stop an outbreak before it starts.​ School testing is not only quick, easy and painless, it…

If you have or think you might have COVID-19, it is important to stay home and away from others. When you can be around others depends on different factors for different…

By Jim Morris Public Health Watch While still jarringly high, U.S. suicide rates fell in 2019 and again in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last month. The year-over-year rate…

When María Elena Bottazzi left Honduras, she never expected to one day be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Bottazzi is a microbiologist at the Texas’s Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at…

Decades of explicit and implicit racism in social, economic, and political systems have led to inequitable outcomes in communities of color with heavy burdens of toxic stress, disease, and premature…