An "unprecedented" toxic algae bloom has overrun the coast of Southern California, sickening marine animals and staining the ...

Whooping cough cases are more than double those seen at the same time last year, with 8,064 cases recorded nationwide so far ...

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

Pertussis earned its moniker "whooping cough" because it causes uncontrollable coughing and can often result in people making ...

RFK considering pulling recommendation for kids to get the Covid vaccine - Kennedy is an anti-vaccine activist who has ...

Even though fewer people are smoking traditional cigarettes, tobacco usage in any form remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death.

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

Amid the ongoing measles outbreak, many people might be wondering: do I need to get a measles vaccine booster?

Thanks in part to federal funding for newborn hearing screening, about 98% of newborns are screened for hearing loss before ...

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations ...

Autism diagnoses are continuing to increase in the U.S., now affecting one in 31 children, according to a new CDC report ...

“We demonstrated that gut metabolites impact the brain, and the brain, in turn, affects behavior,” study author Lisa ...