Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, those super-tasty, energy-dense foods typically ...

A significant chikungunya outbreak in southern China, primarily in Foshan, Guangdong Province, has infected over 7,000 ...

Inside Douglas Norris' lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a healthy stack of envelopes — not with ...

Much of the public health agency's $9 billion budget had been in limbo, but funds are finally flowing, according to CDC staffers, including for a key overdose prevention program.

San Antonio public health officials say a mosquito pool on the north side tested positive for West Nile Virus, the first such ...

Swimmer’s itch, or cercarial dermatitis, is a skin condition caused by “microscopic parasites,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Humans generally come into contact ...

Susan Patricia Coller Monarez is the new Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The US Senate confirmed ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before becoming the U.S.

Pop icon Justin Timberlake has revealed he is battling Lyme disease following the end of his world tour. Despite flare-ups ...

At least three members of the CDC's Advisory Committee to the Director have been fired. Epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public ...

The U.S. fertility rate reached an all-time low in 2024, according to the CDC. This trend has sparked fear among many on the ...