The “cicada” SARS-CoV-2 variant, which earned its nickname after staying relatively dormant following its discovery in 2024, has accounted for a small proportion of COVID-19 cases since the CDC began ...

WASHINGTON -- Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed ...

More than 40 people in the US may have been exposed to hantavirus from a cruise ship outbreak. Here's when this rare disease ...

For a third consecutive year, fatal drug overdose deaths declined in the U.S. Unfortunately, not every state has followed ...

The CDC will have less data to track the spread of Covid and new variants after the public health emergency ends on Thursday. The U.S. has a fragmented health-care system where the authority to decide ...

May 13 (Reuters) - Drug overdose ⁠deaths ⁠in the United ⁠States fell nearly 14% in ​2025, federal estimates showed on ...

For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Last ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows emergency room visits for tick bites are running higher than usual in many parts of the country, prompting a warning from ...

There have been over 32,000 cases of whooping cough this year, CDC data shows—the highest count seen in a decade. Reading time 2 minutes Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is making a comeback ...

Sonya Stokes, M.D., an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting and other flu-like symptoms.