Preliminary data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. has seen 8,485 cases of whooping cough ...

Public health officials in King County are closely monitoring measles cases in Washington, emphasizing the importance of ...

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump ...

Measles could be well positioned for a comeback in the United States in a very short period of time. If immunization rates ...

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

Some key public health figures are taking an extraordinary step to try to shore up U.S. vaccination policy, feared to be under threat from health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The government list of recommended immunizations for children, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates ...

Thousands of Americans campaigning for the Novavax COVID-19 booster got some good news this week: the FDA signaled it might ...

Typhoid fever is still a significant threat in some parts of the world, and becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, ...

To prevent contracting E. coli, Van Orman advised students to wash their fresh produce — even salads labeled as “pre-washed” — and to ensure that any meat they consumed was cooked thoroughly.

One of the best ways to avoid getting sick is quite simple, according to Prianka Chawla, MD, Primary Care Physician at Tufts Medical Center: Keep your distance from people who are sick. But because of ...