(Reuters) - Nearly 87,000 Americans died from drug overdose in the United States in the 12-month period ending September 2024 ...

Flu activity remains "elevated" in the U.S. but is starting to show signs of abating, according to new CDC data published ...

Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 20 The Washington Post says Musk's mass firings are backfiring President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been rapidly firing ...

Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according to new federal ...

Not unlike his experience during his first term, President Donald Trump and his administration are facing all manner of ...

United States, with 43 states reporting high or very high outpatient respiratory illness activity, according to FluView, a weekly influenza surveillance report prepared by the Influenza Division of ...

A nationwide recall of frozen nutritional shakes has been issued after a listeria outbreak tied to the drinks resulted in ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported that measles cases so far this year had jumped to 93 ...

Preliminary data indicates that overdose deaths in the U.S. dropped 24% last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in a decade. So far, there have been at least 29 million illnesses and 370,000 hospitalizations related to the flu -- the most since the 2015-2016 ...

In addition to the centers' wide variety of functions to protect and promote public health in the United States, a vast amount of research in the country relies on CDC data. Several of these ...