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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today during general remarks, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track ...

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

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) released a joint statement yesterday saying President ...

"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 ...

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 total, 17% of children and 28.2% of adults were vaccinated. For children, the vaccine was 51% effective against flu-related hospital stays and 54% effective against ED/UC visits. Vaccine ...

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

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 ...

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