Casey Means, President Trump’s new pick for U.S. surgeon general faces questions about her medical qualifications. And ...

Health officials today sounded a new alert over the recent outbreak of a gruesome parasite at a petting farm in Wales, as ...

Antifungal resistance - less discussed and well known than antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - is spreading and leaving people more vulnerable to related infections, some of them deadly.These fungal ...

Key Takeaways Women are at greater risk for COPD even though they smoke lessOverall, women are about 50% more likely to ...

A new study by researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed a concerning rise in the incidence of ...

The nation’s infant mortality rate dropped last year after two years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau. Some experts think one reason for the drop could be a vaccination campaign against RSV, or ...

The infant mortality national rate dropped to about 5.5 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, according to provisional ...

A salmonella outbreak tied to home raised poultry has ruffled feathers across several states, including one local case ...

Virginia Democrats are criticizing the Trump administration for cutting funding and staffing from programs aimed at fighting ...

A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns ...

A group of more than a dozen Democratic senators is asking the Trump administration to rehire a team of scientists at the ...