State health officials have confirmed three additional measles cases linked to an ongoing outbreak at a metro Atlanta daycare ...

Track how COVID cases force Texas school closures as new waves hit. Stay informed on health alerts and protect your children ...

Just ahead of the annual respiratory illness season, COVID-19 infections are already making the rounds nationwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that COVID-19 infections are ...

Africa CDC Says Ebola Spread Has Pandemic-Emergency Signs A healthcare worker takes samples from a patient suffering from Ebola virus disease at an ebola treatment center in Bunia, Ituri, Democratic ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely.

You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely. You can also spend long periods alone without finding the experience distressing. That difference may help explain why ...

Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination to serve as director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now heads to the Senate floor. Dr. Erica Schwartz testifies during a Senate Health, Education, ...

There are promising signs that illnesses linked to contaminated lettuce may be slowing in Michigan, the hot spot of the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the U.S. That doesn’t mean all the ...

In Europe in the 1700s, coffeehouses were sources of coffee, but also conversation. As the MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle points out in her 2016 book, Reclaiming Conversation, many people went to ...

White House Correspondents’ Dinner: President Trump spoke at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, which was rescheduled after a gunman attacked the event in April. His rambling, ...

Americans traveling to Costa Rica are being urged to take extra precautions after U.S. health officials issued a new travel warning over an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya. The ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Federal health officials are expanding travel precautions after a U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) tested positive for Ebola ...