Health officials are advising the public to avoid swimming, surfing or playing in the ocean at several Los Angeles County beaches due to elevated bacteria levels that exceed state health ...

The public-health profession can go on pretending it knows how to cure every social ill, but it will never earn back the public’s respect unless it returns to its original principles.

Getty Images. Graduates with degrees in public health can find work with federal agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. military.

To understand how the public health establishment has fallen, and what might be done to redeem it, one needn’t look far back. While the Trump administration may have created a new level of ...