US officials are cautioning Americans against alcohol consumption this week amidst dangerous heatwave conditions.

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health successes of modern medicine. From smallpox to polio to measles, vaccines have ...

A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other ...

Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.

"I think it was a lot of grassroots, to be honest, and it worked," Michael Staudenmaier said of rolling out his team's novel heat-risk data tool.

Medical professionals Timothy Holtz and Teri Mills worked with AIDS patients in the 1990s, when treatments were few. With ...

A psychedelic drug called ibogaine can safely and effectively treat long-term symptoms of traumatic brain injury in veterans, ...

A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family of the 12-year-old from South Carolina and has so far raised more than ...

The number of Americans caring for an older or disabled family member has risen dramatically during the past 10 years, ...

Ailments like measles, which were once treated as a standard part of childhood but which could have severe and lasting side ...

The child is believed to have been exposed to the deadly organism while swimming in South Carolina's Lake Murray ...

Congress should consider whether the U.S. really needs the often meddlesome office at all, or the public health bureaucracy ...