A total of 37 infants have now been hospitalized amid an outbreak of infant botulism, a type of severe illness caused by ...

The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDCs) made controversial changes to the language on their website regarding ...

Families enjoying Thanksgiving gatherings may want to keep an eye not just on the weather, but on where COVID-19 is starting ...

Northeast health leaders say CDC's shift on vaccines, autism was "inconsistent with decades of research" and may lead to ...

It is a trait that occurs when a person inherits a single gene for a disease and it impacts 8 to 10 million African Americans ...

For almost 80 years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been the nation's immune system, detecting threats early, coordinating rapid responses, and safeguarding population ...

Last year’s outbreaks were the largest in a decade, fueled by an emerging variant of the highly contagious, hard-to-kill ...

A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Infections happen year-round, but peak whooping cough season lasts from late summer through fall. Pertussis is a cyclical disease, meaning it might spread widely through a community and then disappear ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. James Campbell, an expert on childhood infectious diseases, about the CDC's new messaging on the relationship between vaccines and autism.

(InvestigateTV) — When D’Asia Jackson’s sickle cell pain flares during her menstrual cycle, birth control is the only thing that brings relief. “With birth control, it is for, to me, for the doctor, ...