When it comes to seasonal illnesses, few are as dreaded - or as preventable - as whooping cough. The violent coughing fits, the struggle to breath, and the high pitched "whoop" sound that some people ...

As we head into flu season, Columbus Regional Health is urging you to take steps to keep yourself healthy, including getting ...

Alcoholism in men and women is linked with differing levels of reproductive hormones and proteins, according to recent research.

CDC data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in #drugoverdose deaths across the U.S., a huge reversal from recent years when ...

The symptoms of poisoning — such as lethargy, weakness and vomiting — can look similar to other issues like canine distemper.

Another health care worker who was exposed to a Missouri patient who tested positive for bird flu developed respirato ...

Whooping cough cases in the U.S. are at their highest level since 2014. Could a human challenge trial help test a better vaccine?

“COVID is still out there, and it’s still causing severe disease, and it’s still causing death at a much higher rate than the ...

Health care providers say Iowans should get their COVID-19, influenza and RSV vaccines in September or October ...

Results looking at the first season of RSV use shows that it is 75% effective at preventing RSV-associated hospitalizations ...

The coronavirus subvariant XEC is drawing more attention as a potential threat heading into late autumn and winter — ...

State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo spread anti-vaccine misinformation by telling Floridians to avoid mRNA vaccines. Vaccine ...