The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people ...

Known for his anti-vaccination stance, the new US Secretary of Health is facing his first challenge: Curbing the mainly Texas ...

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

Officials have ruled out Ebola or Marburg virus, but say those infected are presenting symptoms of a ‘hemorrhagic fever’ ...

For decades, we have witnessed steady growth in the prevalence of overweight and obesity throughout the world. In some ...

Studying epidemics can help us plan for the future and identify better ways of dealing with them. Now, in a new study ...

However, Ebola and similar diseases including Marburg have been ruled out after ... And so, as long as we have these forests, ...

Hospital visits for influenza-like illnesses and diarrhea declined last week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said ...

We can now prevent HIV transmissions and deaths — progress impossible without investments from the U.S. government ...

By the time sailing ship Capt. Robert Gray named and claimed the Columbia River for the United States in 1792, European diseases already had decimated the Pacific Northwest Native American population.

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with possibly 476,000 people a year diagnosed and treated in the U.S.

The obesity epidemic just got bigger with a new Lancet study predicting that 21.8 crore men and 23.1 crore women in India ...