A rare case of Lyme disease has been detected in New York. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the ...

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has voted to increase Fiscal Year 2027 funding for lupus programs at the Department ...

For Men's Mental Health Week (June 15-21), the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is encouraging men to get ...

The "stealth infection" made recent headlines after an outbreak on a cruise ship.

Colorado health officials announced on June 9 that they had detected a rare disease linked to rabbits and ticks in the state.

Another person fell ill in the incident, which the city manager said was an "extreme situation" ...

Florida health officials are pushing back at quarantine guidance from the CDC for passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius ...

An audit of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public databases found that nearly half of routinely updated federal health surveillance systems had stopped or delayed updates in ...

A prominent OB-GYN group announced a set of vaccine recommendations on Wednesday that differs from what the U.S. government ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has been going through turmoil and several leadership ...

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