Aircraft drills and hands-on training aim to help first responders stabilize injured working dogs and transport them quickly to veterinary care.

First discovered in 2001, HMPV is similar to respiratory syncytial virus, although it’s a separate virus, according to the CDC. It’s associated with cold-like symptoms including cough, fever, runny ...

Cases of human metapneumovirus are on the rise across the country. Here's what this virus is, plus how to protect yourself.

US-supported international HIV research, particularly that conducted in African countries, has direct benefits to Americans. Cuts to that research may undermine those benefits.

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 ...

Can our homes help detect brain changes? New research shows how digital sensing reveals subtle shifts in movement and cognition in everyday life, and can track disease progression.

Michigan health officials confirm a third pediatric flu death, and the state reports its first measles case of 2026.

Although polio has been eliminated as an endemic disease in the United States, that isn’t true for other parts of the world.

People affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, did not develop more severe forms of mpox — compared to HIV-negative people — during the multiregional outbreak of this ...

Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF), caused by Borrelia recurrentis and transmitted by the human body louse, remains a persistent health emergency in Ethiopia, resulting in preventable mortality among ...

We’re learning that frailty can quietly arrive decades before old age, with some people in their 30s or 40s unknowingly in a pre-frail state. There are surprising ways to stay strong – and it’s not al ...