The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data ...

The impacts of climate change — extreme heat, fires, floods, drought, sea-level rise — are increasing in frequency, intensity and cost. Earth Day is an opportunity to reflect on actions to reduce GHG ...

The only lab in the U.S. capable of testing for and tracking antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, or “super gonorrhea,” was ...

Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates ...

The nation’s public health agency has long asserted that a little of the mineral in water helps prevent tooth decay. The top ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks ...

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a ...

Whooping cough is also known as pertussis and is spread from person to person through the air when someone coughs or sneezes, ...

Sociologists who examined the CDC data said it reflects women who delayed having children in their 20s and chose to do so in ...

Anyone in the US who’s depended on a respirator to provide protection against dust, smoke, mold or airborne viruses has ...

In all, the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid will cut 20,000 positions, half of them through layoffs. The total is ...