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

Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in ...

Novavax’s vaccine, which is the only protein-based COVID-19 vaccine, is awaiting for its full approval. Once approved, it ...

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 ...

The fertility rate last year – 54.6 births for every 1,000 women of reproductive age – increased less than 1% from the record ...

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 ...

Access to the federal website on COVID-19 is no longer publicly accessible. The Covid.gov page now automatically forwards ...

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

Distressing Covid vaccine syndrome signs to look out forPresident Donald Trump's newly formed CDC is considering a shakeup to ...

These recommendations go to the CDC director, who usually heeds them but ultimately determines whether or not they become ...