A park employee at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona was confirmed to have been exposed to hantavirus, which is rare but ...

Why do rural adults and racial and ethnic minorities with vascular disease get major leg amputations more often? A new study ...

Statistics The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is an approach to global descriptive epidemiology. It is a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to ...

Globally, obesity is a growing public health crisis, affecting millions and leading to premature deaths. India faces a ...

Shillong: The North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, in collaboration with Sun Pharma Sc.

Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome is on the rise across the United States, affecting 80% of the population.

These working conditions are associated with increased risks of respiratory diseases, certain cancers, musculoskeletal disease, hypertension, stress and anxiety. 31 In addition to these long-term ...

Inside one of those nondescript rooms last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an independent panel that makes vaccine recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Most of public health is based on the working hypothesis that disease is caused by exposure to noxious factors in the external environment. While this approach has produced great successes in primary ...

A research team has evaluated the real-world impact of a community-based pneumococcal vaccination support program for older ...

Scientists sometimes compare predicting the course of epidemics to forecasting the weather. But there's a major ...