Many dentists prescribe antibiotics for common procedures, such as tooth removals, “just in case,” hoping to prevent their ...

Federal agencies tasked with planning for and responding to public health emergencies say they need a big bump in funding to ...

For years, patients with long COVID have described neurologic symptoms like brain fog, memory problems, difficulty ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that it has narrowed down the source of the five-state Cyclospora ...

With 29 newly confirmed cases, the the US measles total is just 29 cases short of last year’s sobering total, the Centers for ...

The first Americans affected by the policy are 7 aid workers who had been responding to the DR Congo outbreak.

The last person being treated for Ebola Bundibugyo virus in Uganda has been discharged, meaning the active outbreak is now ...

During the pandemic, a new study suggests, many older adults were infected with COVID-19 around the time of their ...

Today a Public Health Alerts report describes postexposure prophylaxis (prevention) after 13 people in Wyoming were exposed ...

Look at the data, and you’ll see that death from skydiving is exceedingly rare, on the order of one in 200,000 jumps.

Physicians at the South Carolina hospital system note that two patients developed measles encephalitis, a life-threatening ...