The United States Center for Disease Control issued another string of travel warnings as the chikungunya virus continues to spread across the globe with outbreaks in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, ...

The outbreak of a bacteria, popularly known as flesh-eating bacteria for its ability to destroy human tissue, has raised ...

Tens of thousands of people who fight wildfires spend weeks working in toxic smoke and ash wearing only a cloth bandanna, or ...

Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. For parents of school-aged children, the fall to-do list can seem ever-growing. Buy school supplies. Fill out endless school forms. Block ...

Invasive Asian longhorned ticks are spreading across the U.S., raising fears of ehrlichiosis and other tick-borne diseases, ...

Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science ...

We lost our 6-year-old son, Zachary Archer Cohn, when he drowned in our backyard pool after his arm became trapped by the suction of an uncovered drain.

South Korea and the United States began their annual large-scale joint military exercise on Monday to better cope with ...

Along with being older and having an underlying health condition, pregnancy itself is a risk factor. Pregnant women are more ...

Five months since the Trump administration rolled out grand plans for a signature health agency, Congress has shied away from ...

The CDC specifically recommends washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, or the amount of time it ...

Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago in December, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at ...