Brianna Abbott is a health reporter covering the treatment and prevention of disease, with a special focus on cancer, in The ...

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is demanding to know how ...

The U.S. fertility rate grew by less than 1% -- close to a record low -- as 3,622,673 babies were born in 2024, according to ...

Such a change would put the U.S. more in line with guidance in other countries and with the World Health Organization, which ...

Women in the United States are less likely to have babies than ever before, but key figures in the Trump administration seem ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might soon limit its guidance for who should receive a coronavirus booster ...

Shira Doron, MD, MS, is an infectious diseases physician at Tufts Medical Center and the Chief Infection Control Officer for the Tufts Medicine health system. Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an infectious ...

T he most recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an increase in diagnoses of autism ...

Unvaccinated children and adolescents were up to 20 times more likely to develop long COVID than their vaccinated peers, according to new research led by a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

Notes from a recent meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ COVID-19 Work Group show health ...

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...