States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in ...

More than 750 current and former HHS employees signed a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding he stop ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it's seized "potentially disease ridden" exotic meat from wild African animals ...

A new COVID-19 variant called Stratus, or XFG, is spreading in America. It was first found in Southeast Asia. The CDC says it ...

The guidance from the Illinois-based group comes comes amid a tumultuous year for public health, as vaccine skeptics have ...

For more than 20 years, Harvard infectious disease specialist Roger Shapiro has fought HIV on the ground in Botswana, where ...

Health departments struggle to adequately survey for ticks to warn doctors about new species and the diseases they carry.

A survey of doctors showed how pervasive medical falsehoods have become — not only online, but also within the walls of ...

In Guatemalan communities, a recent visit to a health clinic or hospital—not antibiotic use—is the strongest predictor of ...

COLLATERAL DAMAGE — The CDC’s malaria control efforts are buckling under the Trump administration, which slashed millions of dollars of global health funding, forcing the agency to dissolve an already ...

An invasive tick species is growing in population throughout the country, especially in the Philadelphia area. And they can reproduce without mates.

The ESCAPE trial will examine whether eating or avoiding peanuts and eggs during pregnancy and breastfeeding can shape infants’ immune responses before their first taste ...