H5N1 in dairy cattle, first identified in March 2024 and again on Dec. 2 in California, underscores the critical importance of consuming pasteurized milk, says ...

The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could see big changes under President-elect Donald Trump. He’s threatened cuts to public health efforts, and has promised to give ...

The new strategy aims to pinpoint where bird flu exists in the U.S. and halt its spread. There have been hundreds of cases in ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found drug overdose deaths in the United States fell 17% between July 2023 and July 2024. While the exact number of overdose deaths ...

Officials are monitoring the outbreak, but say that a vaccine is not yet warranted because the virus isn’t spreading among people or causing severe illness.

As the Biden administration winds down, the US Food and Drug Administration has submitted a proposed rule that could significantly lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products and potentially ...

"Our policies are saving lives,” Biden officials say about the drop in drug overdose deaths. Experts say that may not be the ...

While fentanyl is a deadly drug booming in the nation's illegal drug market, the CDC is sounding the alarm on something more powerful than that.

Alcohol is the most common addictive drug in the U.S., serving as both a “gateway” drug and its own one-stop addiction.

Members of the Biden White House celebrated the report but said there's still more work to be done to further reduce overdose ...

Every new presidential administration comes with policy changes, but the incoming second administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert ...

Deaths from HIV/AIDS are ten times lower than at the peak of the epidemic, and new research could drive that down even more.