Rae Ellen Bichell

The health care industry is obsessed with consumer satisfaction. But national patient surveys still don't get at an important question: Are hospitals delivering culturally competent care?

With kids back in school, business is picking back up for professional delousers. But how are kids getting head lice if they're physically distancing in the classroom?

The CDC sent in a team to investigate a delta variant hotspot in Mesa County, Colo. That didn't stop tens of thousands of people from flocking to the state's largest country music festival.

Leaders in some Western U.S. watersheds are eyeing the idea of a marketplace where selling water is as easy as selling a couch on Craigslist. Australia has had just such a system for years – revealing the tradeoffs involved.

Two Colorado counties are feuding as one has lax virus prevention rules which the other says are a problem because it has the hospitals that serve both populations.

A regional public health department had been going strong since the 1960s. Then, the pandemic hit. Now, it's on the brink of divorce.

Winter is coming, and that means outdoor socializing is about to get harder. Health officials in other countries have endorsed something called a “social bubble,” also known as a “pandemic pod,” or “quaranteam.” An epidemiologist shares some tips on how to start one.

Antigen testing is starting to become a more common way to test for COVID-19. It looks for the virus’ surface coating, rather than pieces of its genetic material. It’s faster and easier to administer than other tests. Public health experts say it’s important to collect all results — positive and negative — to understand the scale of each state’s outbreak.

Japanese health officials claim their different approach to contract tracing is one of the “secrets” to their early success in containing COVID-19. But what is so-called "retrospective contact tracing"?

Colorado researchers will soon begin growing two strains of the virus that causes COVID-19. They’ve contracted with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to help stockpile the virus in case it’s needed in the future for a controversial kind of study.