The state health department has traced the source of the campylobacter outbreak that has infected now more than 21 people back to Peninsula Dairy, a dairy...

Although the state health department has tied more than 30 cases of an infection to a Kasilof-based...bacteria, according to the health department. After the state health department linked the outbreak to Byers' farm, it collected fecal...

...indigent burials and $3.4 million for disaster funding.Ron Kreher, director of public assistance for the state health department, said the state will pay for the burial of many individuals who receive adult public assistance, including the...

...report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a first glimpse at 2011 birth certificate data from state health departments. More analysis comes later but officials don't expect the numbers to change much.Early data for 2012 is...

...recommended vaccines to children and adults who otherwise could not get them. According to an analysis by the state health department, the program would provide vaccine for an estimated 47,000 children and about 110,000 doses of vaccine to...

...Alaska has rescinded its offer to hire Dr. James Dibdin and reopened its search for a new medical examiner. The state health department in a statement said Monday that it discovered that Dibdin did not provide a complete employment history. The...