Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in almost every racial and ethnic group in the United States. According ...

A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of ...

The list of food recalls has been growing over the last few months. Why it matters: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 48 million people a year are sickened by foodborne ...

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to ...

What are the current CDC recommendations for vaccines? Here's the list from the government website as of Jan. 30, 2025.

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

Norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting, diarrhea and foodborne illness in the US, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Ozempic, the blockbuster GLP-1 drug that was originally approved to treat type 2 diabetes, has now also been approved by the ...

There is a vaccine aimed at preventing TB called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but it’s not commonly used in the U.S., ...

The United States is experiencing one of its largest outbreaks of tuberculosis since the CDC began reporting in the 1950s.

The discovery of chronic wasting disease in a Georgia deer has state officials on alert, but they say the deer hunting ...