A Public Health Alerts report today highlights almost 600 cases of silicosis—an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica particles—in workers making stone countertops in California over a span ...

Missed diagnoses can prolong hospitalization, and unnecessarily expose patients to antibacterial therapy or invasive diagnostic testing.

But the biggest test for the CDC’s new director, Erica Schwartz, MD, MPH, JD, has arrived before her first day on the job. Schwartz, who has been confirmed but not sworn in, will have to decide how to ...

In the study, IMD infections were associated with significant illness and death. In all, 43% of patients were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) and 50% required intubation and mechanical ...

President Donald Trump is calling to "break up" the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which would require more visits and shots, instead of using a two-dose regimen to deliver the three ...

"Although the primary purpose of nirsevimab is to prevent RSV-associated hospitalizations, this study demonstrates a clinically meaningful reduction in RSV-associated antibiotic use, revealing the ...

Definitive proof of smallpox was found in the remains of two people who lived in the Inca Empire during the start of Spanish ...

A national retrospective cohort study of more than 2.5 million children found no association between receiving the measles, ...

People who work night shifts may face a significantly higher risk of developing long COVID, according to a study published ...

Yesterday, in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump described what he believed happens to an American infant at a routine well visit. He said he had seen proof of a vaccination the size of a bottle ...

Manufacturing mRNA vaccines is faster, so theoretically the flu vaccine can be updated as the virus changes, giving hope that ...

A once-weekly oral HIV treatment maintained viral suppression as effectively as a standard once-daily regimen in a phase 3 ...