Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

Health officials at the Center for Disease Control have reportedly been ordered to stop working with the World Health ...

A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of ...

Ozempic, the blockbuster GLP-1 drug that was originally approved to treat type 2 diabetes, has now also been approved by the ...

There is a vaccine aimed at preventing TB called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but it’s not commonly used in the U.S., ...

What are the current CDC recommendations for vaccines? Here's the list from the government website as of Jan. 30, 2025.

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in almost every racial and ethnic group in the United States. According ...

Resisting the reality of chronic illness can lead to emotional distress. Acceptance, on the other hand, can open the door to proactive coping.

At least nine people have died in a fresh outbreak of Marburg virus disease, an eye-bleeding condition in Tanzania, Africa's ...

A new report published Monday found that heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States.

Two of the four cases are in Lubbock, which hasn’t seen a case in more than 20 years. Measles vaccination rates in Texas have ...

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