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

Pertussis cases in the United States have increased fourfold compared with the same time period last year, according to data ...

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

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

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States. Although it is largely preventable, each year more than 300,000 women, or 1 in every 5, die from heart disease, according ...

Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows overdose deaths in the United States are dropping, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In the past two decades, suicide rates in rural states such as Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming have been about ...