Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live.

Newer formulations are even more effective at preventing illnesses that commonly afflict seniors — perhaps even dementia.

Summer is just getting started, and millions of people are under heat advisories as a major heat wave spreads across large ...

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial ...

Natural declines in muscle mass, strength, bone density, flexibility and reaction times significantly increase the risk of falls, a major cause of injury in older adults.

Three Pennsylvania nonprofits share a uniquely focused mission on public health. Looming federal cuts to scientific research, ...

The CDC center that provides a window into how Americans are accidentally killed could see much of its work zeroed out under ...

The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the ...

Saturday set a new highest minimum temperature for a June 21 in Chicago. Sunday and Monday could see new record high ...

A new Chicago clinic is providing abortions up to roughly 34 weeks into pregnancy — the only standalone clinic in the Midwest ...

Measles is back Nearly 35 US states have shared news about outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and ...

Scientists say the bees' temperament is to ward off predators. But unsuspecting humans will find them to be aggressive, spiteful and terrifying.