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The Hawai‘i Department of Health Food and Drug Branch is alerting residents to a recall issued by Sun Noodle for its Sura Tanmen Hot and Sour Flavor Premium Japanese Noodles & Soup Base.

The individual traveled internationally before returning to Hawaiʻi prior to getting sick. The assessment of risk of cyclosporiasis to the public in Hawaiʻi remains low.

The state Department of Health is advising residents and visitors of elevated levels of enterococci, a bacteria found in feces, at Hanakaʻōʻō Beach. Levels of 406 per 100 milliliter have been detected during routine beach monitoring, the department reported. The Department of Health Clean Water Branch provides beach monitoring and notification through its beach program. […]

Two additional cases of cyclosporiasis in Hawaiʻi residents who traveled together internationally and to a US state that has reported a cyclosporiasis outbreak, the Hawaiʻi Department of Health confirmed. The two individuals are members of the same household. Based on their travel history, symptom onset and the known incubation period following exposure to the parasite, […]

An advocacy group and a state agency are partnering on a new survey aimed at gauging access to menstrual products across Hawaiʻi, five years after a government report found widespread struggles with “period poverty.” Maʻi Movement Hawaiʻi and the Hawaiʻi State Commission on the Status of Women released the questionnaire this month as part of […]

US Congressman Ed Case (HI-01), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, voted in full Committee on Tuesday against the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill that he says cuts core assistance programs by $23.9 billion, or 11%, from current FY 2025 funding.

Richard Coloma, Community Health Worker, received the 2025 Peer Award in Public Health from the Healthcare Association of Hawaii (HAH), while Maria Eliza Sanado, Social Services Assistant, earned an HAH Scholarship to pursue her master’s degree in Social Work.

The Hawai‘i Department of Health recently launched Vision Zero Hawai‘i, a new public service announcement campaign aiming to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injuries on roads statewide.

H.R. 2483, The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act, passed in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, with a vote of 217-208.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health is recognizing World Tuberculosis Day by raising awareness about the ongoing public health threat posed by TB.

US Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday, underscoring congressional Republicans’ efforts to cut taxes for billionaires. He said this comes while working families are footing the bill as they struggle with soaring prices from inflation, air safety concerns, and threats to public health.

Two Senate committees voted Thursday to recommend passage of a bill to legalize adult personal use of cannabis Hawaiʻi and establish taxes on its retail sale and medical use.

In the aftermath of Maui’s Lahaina wildfire, the University of Hawai‘i will use $519,000 in USDA grants to fund research projects that aim to reinforce Hawai‘i’s agriculture against disasters and address the health risks of toxic chromium.

A red “Closed” placard was issued to a café in Lahaina following a complaint and routine follow-up inspection conducted on July 27, 2023 for a cockroach infestation.

An estimated 330 vaccination doses were administered before the closure.

Chris Tatum, President and CEO of the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority said about 70,000 people are now unemployed that had worked in the tourism industry and their health benefits are at risk. The subcommittee expects tourism will recover slowly because over a third of American travelers say they don’t expect to take a commercial trip until sometime in 2021 at the earliest.

Mayor Michael Victorino announced a number of Public Health Emergency Rules effective as of 7:45 a.m. Friday, March 20, 2020, directed toward limiting the gathering of groups of people and curtailing vehicular transportation except for essential activities or operation of essential business or government functions, such as travel to and from work and medical appointments.

Hawaiʻi will receive $6.1 M from the CDC to increase the state’s ability to prepare and respond to potential public health threats.

A recent report from Trust for America’s Health shows that Hawaii is not as prepared for a statewide emergency as it once was. The state’s score dropped in key indicators of public health preparedness, leaving it in the bottom half of the country for 2010. Hawaii state officials cite budget cuts for their inability to […]