The program, which began a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, provides medical services to impacted individuals and studies 9/11-related illness.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the amount of respiratory illness causing people to seek health care is low nationwide and in Georgia.

In a Q&A, one of the project’s principal investigators describes the 'devastating' termination of grant funding for research that was nearing completion.

In the state, Black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The county's initiatives aimed at reducing racial disparities work but depend on federal dollars — money that might not flow amid budget cuts and a push to end DEI programs.

The federal government is pursuing potentially steeper cuts to health agencies, with a proposed $40 billion reduction for the budget of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically. Of the organizations that had grants cut in the first month, about 40% are in states President Donald Trump won in November.

The state's vaccination rates have been on the decline for years, with overall measles protection below the 95% rate needed for herd immunity.

Federal staff cuts and delayed funding limit access to the Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps over a million people across the state pay bills and get air conditioning units.

Health commissioner says disparities in dental care will put children living in poverty at risk.

We have more effective tools for HIV prevention than ever before. But the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the programs that deliver them could squander an historic opportunity to end the epidemic.

Five of 10 HIV branches have been eliminated by last week’s massive cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Launched to combat vaccine misinformation, Out of Hand Theater's EqVax program used a blend of theater, art, storytelling, and community dialogue to build trust in vaccines among underserved communities.

For many small organizations, the federal grants were a rare opportunity to invest in local public health initiatives.

Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration raids and threats have undermined these efforts, researchers say.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in Covid-related funds for state and local health departments in late March.

In a world where information travels far faster than infections, it is more important than ever to think critically about reports of new diseases or outbreaks. Here are the factors to consider.

Scientists and public health officials have long tracked the pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other environmental health hazards and shared them with the public through the local Air Quality Index. But the monitoring system misses hundreds of harmful chemicals released in urban fires.

The state passed a budget that includes expanding home health care visits for pregnancies, new parents, and newborns.

It’s pine tree pollen that coats cars and windowsills in a sunny shade of yellow, but the pollens that fuel allergies here come mostly from hardwood trees like oak, birch, sycamore, and hickory.

More than a dozen NIH grants to Georgia institutions have been canceled since President Donald Trump took office.