Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion men ...

The possibility of ending the HIV epidemic in Europe is more tangible than ever, but the actions we take now will determine ...

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn't ...

Diagnosing patients when there aren’t effective treatments to give them can make their symptoms worse, argues neurologist ...

Rutgers University recently launched the Center for NeuroMetabolism, which aims to address the weight loss and health ...

Scientific discoveries are necessary to eliminate epidemic diseases. But addressing socioeconomic factors is just as ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is on the ground in Texas to aid the state in tamping down a measles outbreak, the agency said Tuesday. The agency in a statement on the social ...

The Trump administration is stepping in to help Texas respond to the deadly and highly contagious respiratory virus.

The drug's use was also on the rise in places like New York, where, in the following year, at least 95% of those admitted to ...

Surprisingly, places like South America, North Africa, and the Middle East will be severely affected.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the ongoing risk of pandemics, highlighting concerns over vaccine skepticism, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — were apparently spared by the cuts made over the ...