It was January when the email came. After a roughly six-month-long hiring process that included fingerprinting and other ...

“Infected people are contagious from 4 days before the rash starts through 4 days afterward. The incubation period for measles, from exposure to fever, is usually about 7-10 days, and from exposure to ...

Follow President Donald Trump's executive order, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidance that recognizes only two sexes.

Physicians respond with masks, telehealth, parking lot clinics, and pleas to parents to vaccinate their children.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a “call to action” and sent vaccines after the death of a child with measles in ...

The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.

Researchers and medical professionals look to the CDC for data about epidemiology ... “These observations seem to suggest that ‘restoration’ may not mean complete restoration,” Jasani wrote to the ...

Trump's definition of 'male,' 'female' criticized by medical and legal experts The new ... such as anatomy and chromosomes." The CDC's website defines gender as "the cultural roles, behaviors ...

Measles is one of the most contagious viruses known to humans. Just one infected patient can spread measles to up to nine out of 10 susceptible close contacts, according to the Centers for Disease ...

The CDC was in the middle of updating a public health surveillance system when the Trump administration started shedding workers. What happens next could exemplify the impact to key government ...

Kennedy Jr., recently confirmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will investigate whether ... a pediatrician at MemorialCare Medical Group in Fountain Valley, CA.

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a severe tick-vectored food allergy caused by sensitivity to the galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose ...