Nearly 1 in 10 infants (9.8%) were admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit in 2023, an increase of 13% from 2016, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were ...

Trump is tapping Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as his nominee for surgeon general after withdrawing his initial pick for the influential health post.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from ...

Senators sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warning him that cuts to the agency could ...

Each year, the CDC usually hires a new class of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, known as disease detectives.

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday it has picked a new head of its center charged with vaccine approvals and other biologics products: Dr. Vinay Prasad, a vocal critic of the agency's ...

Funding cuts and restructuring at the CDC reportedly have disrupted certain efforts related to infection prevention, control and disease monitoring. One such effort is Together TakeMeHome at Emory ...

Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 42 percent of people in the U.S. think federal health agencies are ...

Everyone should have an interest in avoiding mosquito bites. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Vectorborne diseases are a large and growing public health problem in ...

Methodology: This case-control study involved 54 malaria-positive and 54 malaria-negative pregnant women at Gadarif Hospital, Sudan. Mothers’ body mass index was calculated. Babies were weighed ...

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 is a disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that emerged at the end of December 2019 and has since spread globally. In Kenya, the virus was first detected on 13th March ...