Public Health and Safety

Flooded by needy patients and battered by state budget cuts, the area's medical safety net is growing overloaded as health reform commands center stage this week in Washington. Free and low-cost clinics and hospital emergency rooms in disadvantaged neigh

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert due to illnesses possibly associated with ready-to-eat deli meat products that are produced by Siena Foods LTD, a Toronto, Ontario, establishm

In a political battle with a lame-duck governor, the State Bond Commission made the highly unusual move of blocking Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's plans Tuesday for a new, $70 million public health laboratory in Rocky Hill.

Is your favorite restaurant as clean and as sanitary as it can be? If it isn’t, don’t blame the local health inspectors for not trying to make it so. “In Lamar County, we’re fortunate, because we have a health department,” said Anthony Bethel, d

Marcos Lapciuc, treasurer of Miami-Dade's Public Health Trust, fired off an e-mail last July to the Jackson Memorial Hospital network's chief financial officer, raising red flags about alarming losses, ballooning charity care and escalating bad debt sti