The cause of heart disease is generally clogged arteries. These blood vessels can be blocked by fatty plaque that contains ...

One of the best ways to avoid getting sick is quite simple, according to Prianka Chawla, MD, Primary Care Physician at Tufts Medical Center: Keep your distance from people who are sick. But because of ...

Network in sharing a letter to House and Senate Appropriations leaders, as well as key authorization committees, urging ...

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 ...

At least two cases of listeria have been linked to ice cream in the Baltimore metro area, prompting health and safety ...

Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're ...

NBC News: Invasive Strep Infections Have More Than Doubled In The U.S., CDC Study Finds Severe ... according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Monday in the ...

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) reports 101 pertussis cases between January 1 and October 23, 2024. This surpasses the 76 cases reported throughout all of 2023. Ages ...

Cases of an invasive strain of strep throat have been steadily rising in some areas of the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The surveillance study ...

Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's staff working ... Kennedy's layoffs wiped out the entire leadership team atop CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and ...

If you’ve ever had a urinary tract infection (UTI), you know how painful ... take showers instead of baths (also recommended by the CDC), and avoid wearing tight clothes that can trap bacteria ...