It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

A federal work group says Covid vaccine injuries deserve urgent attention, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Have you ever promised yourself you would “get healthy someday,” only to realize that someday keeps moving further away? Preventative health habits work best when they become part of daily life rather ...

In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – a few hundred cases each year, at most.

Viral mismatch between circulating strains and vaccine may have weighed down effectiveness ...

The prevalence of obesity and severe obesity markedly increased among adults and children in the US from the 1970s and 1980s until now.

Sickle cell disease—the subject of a new Seminar in The Lancet—is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic disorders worldwide. Although its true prevalence is difficult to determine ...

Suzette Brewer of the Cherokee Nation reflects on her long reporting journey, which investigated the widespread sterilization of Indigenous people and their centuries-long fight for reproductive ...

Childbirth in the 1800s was extremely risky — although not as risky as in previous centuries — with maternal mortality rates often ranging between 1 in 100 to 1 in 200 births. The Centers for Disease ...

For over a hundred years, the specter of a schizophrenia diagnosis has frightened patients and their families. Yet it confers no useful meaning for treatment or prognosis.

You will be redirected to our submission process. Health systems are increasingly challenged by rising demand associated with chronic conditions linked to preventable risk factors. Upstream policy ...

With the nationwide HPV vaccination programme for girls aged 14 years underway, what are the reasons behind this drive? Is it covered under the Universal Immunization Programme?