If you’ve been avoiding salad this summer, you’re probably not alone. Months into a cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce, thousands of people nationwide have gotten sick, and the outbreak has also been linked to two deaths.
Kids are headed back to school, which is the perfect opportunity for head lice to spread. But before you rush to buy the first treatment on the shelf, Consumer Reports says some of the most common remedies may not work anymore.
Kids are headed back to school, which is the perfect opportunity for head lice to spread. But before you rush to buy the first treatment on the shelf, Consumer Reports says some of the most common remedies may not work anymore.
Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria.
Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has cleared a hurdle in the Senate.
As cyclosporiasis cases continue to rise rapidly in Michigan, state health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have provided precautionary tips while the investigation into the direct cause of the parasitic illness is ongoing.
President Donald Trump is giving his endorsement to a January study by the Department of Health and Human Services that calls for cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every American child.
Health experts say the U.S. flu season appears to be waning with two straight weeks of decline in measures of flu activity.
Officials released an update Tuesday after testing revealed the presence of Legionella in the Oakland County courthouse last week.
The U.S. suicide rate has fallen after years of hovering at some of the highest levels ever reported, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The testing came after an employee tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease. The building is not open to the public, officials said.
A federal vaccine advisory committee voted to delay a vote on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted recommendations by a new group of vaccine advisers, and has stopped recommending COVID-19 shots for anyone.
New government data shows another decline in sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults, but also a continued rise in syphilis in newborns.
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights.
An internal CDC email reveals that the Georgia man who shot at CDC buildings on Aug. 8 likely tried to enter the campus two days earlier.
States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters.
U.S. health officials have told more than a half-dozen of the nation’s top medical organizations that they will no longer help establish vaccination recommendations.
The CDC removed the COVID-19 vaccine from the immunization schedule for healthy children and healthy pregnant women, but the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is still recommending the vaccine for those groups.
U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high.
Four people have been sickened in two states by salmonella poisoning linked to pistachio cream, a nut butter spread.
The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations.
Brazil, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, has confirmed the country’s first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm.
Federal officials say at least 10 people in the U.S. have been sickened in a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat food products, and a producer is voluntarily recalling several items.
Three new health reports detail growing concern about an animal sedative that’s showing up in the nation's illegal drug supply.
Despite its prevalence, many families face long waits, sometimes months, before securing an appointment with a specialist for a diagnosis.
A federal judge in Rhode Island says she'll temporarily block the Trump administration from cutting billions in federal public health dollars.
Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for local public health departments and other health organizations throughout the nation.
Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.
The nation’s top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.
Federal health agencies have restored several webpages and datasets, following a judge’s order to bring back public access to information that had been removed to comply with a presidential executive order.
Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year.
Researchers across the country are in “a mad scramble” to sort out what public data the Trump administration has deleted from government websites.
A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first to adopt a ban meant to eliminate the use of tobacco products over time.
The outgoing head of the nation’s top public health agency is urging the next administration to maintain its focus and funding to keep Americans safe from emerging health threats.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 41% of women and 26% of men experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime.
A scientific panel is calling for a public health approach to marijuana that’s a big departure from “Just Say No.” The report was released Thursday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a “one-off,” stand-alone illness.
U.S. health officials have announced a recall of some Boar's Head liverwurst and other deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak.
At least two people have died and more than two dozen were hospitalized in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning linked to meat sliced at grocery store deli counters.
President Joe Biden did not wear a face mask in public a couple of times after the White House announced he had tested positive for COVID-19.
Chlamydia and gonorrhea are a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) that spread through sexual contact without a condom, according to the CDC.
With temperatures rising across the country and school out for the summer, many families will visit the beach, lake or local swimming pool.
Researchers say doctors are prescribing antibiotics to most kids and teens who have pink eye, despite guidelines that discourage their use.
U.S. health officials are warning doctors to be alert for dengue cases as the tropical disease breaks international records.
If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold.
U.S. health officials now recommend that some people consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases.
Reports of a rare nervous system disorder are “more common than expected” in older U.S. adults who got the new RSV vaccines.