At least six hundred employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being laid off after a court ruling, the ...

Birth defects are the leading cause of death in infants. The risks often start before some women even know they’re pregnant.

Another major medical association has broke from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is now recommending ...

The U.S. is having its worst year for measles in more than three decades as childhood vaccination rates decline.

Public health officials in Texas were met with little to no response from CDC officials when they first reported a measles ...

“This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm myiasis (parasitic infestation of fly larvae) from an ...

Communities across the U.S. are urgently implementing cooling centers as extreme heat becomes more common – and more deadly.

The U.S. has detected its first human case of the flesh-eating parasite New World screwworm related to the ongoing outbreak ...

An analysis using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) among 5,374 women of reproductive ...

A notorious flesh-eating parasite has been detected in a US patient for the first time in decades, health officials ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A person who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm — the first reported US case ...

The person has recovered, and investigators found no transmission to any other people or animals, according to health ...