Central Ohio's air quality index has lowered to moderate after smoke from Canadian wildfires has spread to some U.S. states.

That included slashing $250 million for childhood vaccination programs at the Ohio Department of Health and $3 million of the $6 million already-promised grants to Columbus Public Health ...

Tracking of infectious diseases, mental health funding and self-described life saving investments are at risk in central Ohio and beyond after millions in federal funding cuts to health care and ...

The House plan also cuts pediatric cancer research by $5 million and eliminates lead abatement programs within the Ohio Department of Health. Groundwork Ohio noted the lead abatement program as part ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Health authorities announced a measles outbreak in Ohio on Wednesday, making the state among the latest to sound the alarm over growing numbers of infections. Ohio Department of ...

OHIO — The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) reported the first confirmed measles case in the state for the year. ODH said the infected adult is from Ashtabula County and was unvaccinated. The person ...

Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health, hosted the press conference, along with Dr. Matthew Washam, an infections disease doctor at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW) — The Ohio Department of Health is reporting the state’s first probable human case of bird flu. According to Ohio health officials, a male Mercer County farm worker became ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The flu virus is raging across ... according to the Ohio Department of Health. Franklin County has the second highest rate of flu hospitalizations in the state with 441 so ...

COLUMBUS – Dr. Amy Acton didn ... On Thursday, Acton resigned as the state's health department director, about three months after Ohio's first confirmed COVID-19 cases. Her harried routine ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — With a new presidential administration ... in his administration as the Director of the Ohio Department of Public Health. Acton's leadership helped Ohioans navigate the COVID ...

Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton gives an update on the state’s preparedness and education efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Tony ...