Drug overdose deaths have dropped by 10% this year compared to last, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Public health officials are investigating a cluster of nine confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease among people who ...

More than 70 people on a P&O Cruises sailing got sick in a gastrointestinal illness outbreak. Among 1,959 passengers on the ...

FluMist is the first vaccine to prevent influenza that does not need to be administered by a healthcare provider, the ...

Cancer deaths are down in the U.S., but the disease is taking hold in younger populations, likely fueled by obesity, alcohol ...

Three of the four states had corresponding evidence of human influenza activity from other surveillance systems.

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the ...

INDIANA- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved FluMist for self– or caregiver-administration. FluMist is ...

Unexpected bills for preventive care can worsen racial and socioeconomic health disparities. Learn about the inequities in health care coverage.

Southern Arizona vineyards are leaving grapes to die on the vine or slashing prices for the fruit amid a decline in wine sales.

An 11th-grader at a Hollywood high school died Wednesday evening after a possible lightning strike sent him into cardiac ...

The only other known case of rabies in a sea mammal was in a ringed seal in Norway's Svalbard islands in the early 1980s.