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California on Thursday allowed cities and counties to waive public health laws to allow sale of up to $50,000 a year of food prepared by unregulated home and mobile kitchens.

The index of tobacco stocks jumped by 4.9 percent on Wednesday after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators threatened to ban retail sales of “e-cigs” if manufacturers do not control their rampant use by teens.

The Associated Press reported Monday that 18 percent of recreational marijuana products in California have failed potency and health risk testing since July 1.

Los Angeles public healthcare officials and advocates for disadvantaged communities are blaming systemic racism for spiking rates of sexually transmitted diseases.

JERUSALEM — Israel announced Wednesday it was launching a domestic digital health database that could make it a global medical powerhouse. The move aims to improve public health worldwide but critics warn it risks compromising personal privacy.

California reported 36 flu deaths for the week ending February 3, as the influenza pandemic is on track to be worse than the 2009 outbreak of swine flu.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general is suing the Trump administration for rolling back a fracking rule that he says is designed to protect public health and the environment.

California’s reported deaths from the ongoing influenza epidemic jumped over 50 percent, from 15 for the first week of 2018 to 32 for the second week of 2018.

A new report says that Texas is the U.S. state hardest hit by the flu so far this season with widespread outbreaks.

California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Friday because an outbreak of deadly hepatitis A has killed at least 18 people in the state, and forced almost 500 to be hospitalized.

Officials in San Diego warned city employees about the deadly hepatitis A outbreak twice before Mayor Kevin Faulconer made any public statements about the spreading infectious disease outbreak, according to emails released this week.

A deadly outbreak of Hepatitis A that has claimed 18 lives in San Diego County in recent months, mostly among the rapidly-growing homeless population, has spread to Los Angeles.

Mass immigration could potentially lead to a deadly public health crisis in the United States, according to a new report.

Fleas in two Arizona counties tested positive for the Bubonic plague — the same disease that killed millions of people in the 14th century throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe, public health officials say.

The number of active tuberculosis (TB) cases diagnosed in Minnesota increased 12 percent in 2016 to 168, up from 150 one year earlier, according to the Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program’s Quarterly Surveillance Report, October 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016.

Public health officials say that Texas has hit its highest number of mumps cases in more than 20 years with multiple outbreaks across the state including cases possibly linked to South Padre Island and spring break travel.

On Monday, California began covering health care for poor illegal aliens under the age of 19 with potential to cover adults in the future.

More than 100 medical groups are pressuring Congress to fund more gun-control research even though fire and water lead to far more accidental child-deaths than do firearms.

San Francisco health officials confirmed a case of the rapidly spreading Zika virus in their city on Thursday, the second case in the Bay area this week.

A pediatric emergency medicine physician is urging doctors to join the effort for gun control by asking about gun ownership while performing health histories on their patients.

On August 16, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) claimed America is in the midst of a “gun violence epidemic” and suggested there were “204” mass shootings during “the first 204 days of 2015” alone.

Business is booming at Wolfee Donuts after pop star Ariana Grande’s now-infamous doughnut-licking, “I hate America” incident went viral this week.

The federal government has made a significant move to name monogamy and abstinence as “the most reliable way” to protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

A procedure called ERCP, or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, which uses a specialized endoscope to deal with ailments of the digestive system, has unwittingly introduced a superbug called CRE, or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, into at least two patients at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center who died as a result. Five other patients were also exposed to the superbug; 180 more may have been exposed.

Two major public health groups in Venezuela are warning that President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government is ignoring a surge in cases of the crippling chikungunya virus that could lead to a “humanitarian crisis” in the increasingly impoverished OPEC nation.