People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Thursday the global AIDS-fighting program ...

The FDA is considering reducing the maximum concentration of nicotine in cigarettes, making them essentially nonaddictive.

Giving up nicotine can be a brutal experience that can include everything from physical symptoms, such as headache and nausea ...

It’s been over four years since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention launched its National Wastewater Surveillance System.

In a news release issued Thursday, State Health Officer Paula Tran expressed her sympathies to the family of the child who died and urged everyone 6 months old and up to get a flu ...

• Serious mental illness, which is almost twice as common among women. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

The percentage of kindergartners exempted from one or more vaccinations rose to 3.3% last school year, the highest ever ...

Clemson University Student Health Service officials report a significant increase in positive flu cases on main campus.

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

The sources of exposure are unclear, but officials said it was almost certainly from contact with an infected waterfowl.

One day, a 21-year-old woman from Dharan, Nepal, suddenly developed ear pain, hearing loss, and dizziness. The cause turned ...