public health

A new study suggests reopening schools may be safer than previously thought, at least in communities where the virus is not already spreading out of control.

Science writer Robin Marantz Henig has written about dangerous emerging pathogens for 30 years. But none of what she learned could shed light on her own confusing encounter with this virus.

The public health similarities between asking someone to wear a condom and wearing a mask. And how to reach different communities with more effective messaging around public health issues.

FAU's 10th annual Broward Student Research Symposium is adapting to the time of the coronavirus and going virtual this month. Some students are beginning to research smokers’ immune response to vaccines.

A group of concerned residents who live in downtown, and medical doctors, have urged the city and Broward County that the festival could become a spreader event. Meanwhile, the event producer argues there are ample safety measures in place.

From heat-related illness to mosquito-borne infections, physicians are seeing the effects of a warming planet in the exam room. There's a growing push to teach doctors-in-training how to respond.

Florida is both a microcosm and a cautionary tale for America. As the nation starved the public health system intended to protect communities against disease, staffing and funding fell faster and further in the Sunshine State, leaving it especially unprepared for the worst health crisis in a century.

This story has been updated as of 6:05 p.m., Thursday, July 16.A bar owner in Wilton Manors is suing the city, Broward County and Gov. Ron DeSantis over…

A growing number of governors and mayors are working to slow the spread of the coronavirus by requiring people to wear masks in public places.Experts say…

As states ease their lockdowns, bars are emerging as fertile breeding grounds for the coronavirus. They create a risky cocktail of tight quarters, young…

On Friday, March 13, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stood in the White House Rose Garden to declare COVID-19 a national emergency.…

How contact tracing for the coronavirus works in Florida