Hundreds of lives could be saved each year by broader use of life jackets and more fences around swimming pools, according to ...

Labor unions say layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute for Occupational ...

Novavax originally showed its vaccine was safe and effective in a 30,000-person clinical trial. The FDA had been on track to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday brought back around 300 employees it had dismissed through a ...

(Reuters) -Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell nearly 27% in 2024, federal estimates showed on Wednesday, marking ...

The U.S. government is advising that international travelers age 60 and older not get a chikungunya vaccine as it ...

Health secretary RFK Jr. earlier this week said it's Matthew Buzzelli, listed on the CDC's website as chief of staff. But the ...

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined to their lowest annual level since 2019, according to preliminary data ...

Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.

The United States is in the midst of the second-highest year of measles cases since 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated in this country, meaning that cases within the United States ...

Rappelling from a helicopter was not part of Victoria Chu’s job description. Her work as a disease detective typically included collecting and analyzing data.