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Gaps in government health surveillance are leaving openings for dangerous diseases to slip through undetected.

Drunk driving kills 30% of traffic fatalities yearly. States need screening, treatment, interlocks, and transit — not just statehouses. The post Impaired Driving Is a Public Health Problem Statehouses Still Treat Too Narrowly appeared first on DCReport.org.

California turns down the volume, Medicaid cuts get sued, Wyoming goes grocery shopping, and New York transit gets a discount.

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As New York City braces for an extreme heat wave amid the July 4th weekend and World Cup festivities, government officials and local hospitals are ramping up efforts to prevent heat-related illness. Temperatures were expected to reach 100 degrees F on Thursday, with a heat index between […]

Drone strikes, water shortages, and blackouts have turned North Kordofan’s capital into a trap for hundreds of thousands—including displaced people who fled there hoping for safety.

It took less than two months for the DOD to go back to mandating flu vaccines for new recruits, but someone died all the same.

The post “He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis. appeared first on ProPublica.