Over the weekend, hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees were laid off, a move that former CDC ...

Federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted recommendations by a new group of vaccine advisers, and has ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more ...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, working with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention, said someone ...

The US government’s shutdown is shaking the nation at a time when public health staffing has already been reduced, the threat ...

A new study published in Nature's Scientific Reports indicates that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple ...

The CDC is now recommending that children under the age of 4 no longer get a combination vaccine that protects against four ...

People aged 18 and above need to get one dose of the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to CDC guidelines. People aged 65 and ...

I’m watching a number of things in the context of the shutdown — and not all of them are health-related: Burbank’s airport ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A parasitic disease called Chagas may be establishing itself in the United States, and the “kissing bugs” that cause the illness are known to live in Ohio, according to a ...

CDC warns that a parasitic illness called Chagas disease is now endemic — or always present — in several states. Biting insects called kissing bugs have been identified in 32 states, predominantly in ...