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 ...

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

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 ...

The hosts of “This Podcast Will Kill You” encouraged attendees at this year’s Association for Professionals in Infection ...

There are many disconnects between what the Trump administration says about health and what it’s actually doing, scientists ...

A new study investigates the link between processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, and trans fatty acids, to diseases such as cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.