Every year, this illness makes the rounds in schools, playgrounds and day cares. This time, some parents and pediatricians ...

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious — but usually mild — illness that typically affects kids under 5.

Most Americans with health insurance should not have to pay out of pocket for Covid-19 vaccines, even after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added an extra hurdle to getting the shot.

An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease ...

Once a person falls, things usually go downhill; it’s one of the leading causes of people going to the emergency department,” ...

Even at a time of unprecedented challenges to the work of public health, there is room for optimism, says former CDC Director ...

“There are several reasons why the shingles vaccine may help reduce heart disease. A shingles infection can cause blood ...

Robert Redfield is a senior visiting fellow for biosecurity and public health policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. A virologist, he was director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

According to a new paper published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the risk rises three to fivefold in the ...

The CDC reported deaths and illnesses in an ongoing listeria outbreak related to ready-to-eat pasta products sold at some ...

As doctors and nurses in North Dakota we have grave concerns about the unprecedented chaos and collapse of critical programs at the Centers for Disease Control, the nation’s premier public health ...