Troubling health trends are emerging as the holiday season nears its end. While norovirus cases are surging in some states, ...

On Tuesday afternoon, Saratoga Hospital's emergency department started diverting ambulances to another local hospital due to ...

The mysterious deaths of some backyard chickens in Kansas were caused by bird flu, officials say. The Sedgwick County ...

Scientists also found that the improved formula might even help as new viruses form in the future, according to the blog. The ...

Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is marked by a severe hacking cough followed by an intake of breath that sounds like "whoop." The illness spreads from person to person through the air, carried ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing ...

During and after his presidency, Jimmy Carter spent years working to advance global public health, including helping to nearly eradicate one disease.

The call to authorize a vaccine comes after the CDC announced that a person in Louisiana was hospitalized with the country's first known case of severe illness caused by the virus earlier this month.

Samoa experienced a measles outbreak caused by low vaccination coverage. Following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to be ...

As the New Year’s Eve comes pretty close, the respiratory illness activity in the US has gone up and CDC at the same time ...

The number of norovirus cases is increasing across the US, but there are ways to reduce your chances of infection and stave ...

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