The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000—but that hard-won achievement is now under threat. To contain the current outbreak, some ...

Plus, University of Mississippi student Mary Kate Cornett, 19, speaks out after a viral rumor perpetuated by people like ESPN ...

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a ...

The Office on Smoking and Health, the Environmental Health Laboratory, CDC Communications offices — the gutting of these ...

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

With a confirmed measles case in Colorado, Utah health officials are closely tracking neighboring states as the disease ...

Gun murders in 2023 fell 14% from the 2021 peak, while gun suicides peaked in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported ...

The permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was cut, according to one source.

The CDC noted that it can cause “infection in different parts of the body like the blood, wounds, and ears” and that symptoms ...

As spring breakers this season continue to head south into warmer territory, mosquitoes are posing a health risk that calls ...

While C. auris may not a serious threat to healthy people, it is becoming more frequent, particularly in hospitals, where it ...