On World AIDS Day, the Biden administration renewed its focus on ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030, releasing a new five-year strategy for …
Organ donations and transplantations increase during major US motorcycle rallies due to crashes, according to a new study, signaling a need fo…
The US Food and Drug Administration is considering shifting its blood donation policy away from blanket assessments toward questionnaires that…
The experimental drug lecanemab shows "potential" as an Alzheimer's disease treatment, according to new Phase 3 trial results, but the finding…
Firearm deaths surged in the US during the Covid-19 pandemic, killing a record number of people in 2021. But as America's gun epidemic gets wo…
A woman in Minnesota lost part of her vision and inadvertently put her entire household at risk of mercury poisoning, most likely from using b…
Americans gathered for Thanksgiving last week amid a flu season that's worse than any has been in more than a decade, and experts continue to …
US life insurers paid out a record $100 billion in benefits in 2021, according to new data released Monday by the American Council of Life Insurers.
The World Health Organization announced Monday that "mpox" is now the preferred name for monkeypox.
Eating more flavonols, antioxidants found in many vegetables, fruits, tea and wine, may slow your rate of memory loss, a new study finds.
Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after bird flu was found on a farm.
Despite volunteering and working out at the gym several days each week, socializing frequently with friends and family, reading all manner of …
Sebastian Junger is used to dodging bullets in war zones, so he didn't expect to almost die in his own driveway.
The Food and Drug Administration is advising people in 13 states not to eat certain raw oysters from South Korea after at least one person in …
Do you believe in the holiday food coma?
Holidays and stress seem to go hand in hand. To cope, many people often steal hours from their sleep to pack in all the cooking, shopping, gif…
A hospital in Eldorado, Illinois, is restricting visitors due to widespread influenza.
Shortages of key medications used to treat common childhood illnesses like flu, ear infections and sore throats are adding to the misery of th…
In April 1992, Vanessa Williams' "Save the Best for Last" topped the Billboard 100, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was running for the White House…
Green Day Produce is recalling its enoki mushroom packages sold between September and October because they could be contaminated with Listeria…
For most Americans, planning the Thanksgiving menu is easy. It's a given that turkey — whether purchased raw or fully cooked — will be the cen…
When people think about improving their physical fitness, they often overlook the issue of balance. That's a critical oversight. Good balance …
Seasonal flu activity is "elevated across the country," with "high" or "very high" respiratory virus activity in more than half of US states, …
Doctors and public health experts often talk about a bullet as the vector, just as a virus is the vector of transmission in infectious disease…
A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday.
The CDC is warning of a Listeria outbreak linked to enoki mushrooms that has led to hospitalizations in two states.
A growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio, has sickened more than a dozen unvaccinated children and hospitalized nine of them, and local pu…
The US Food and Drug Administration has given a safety clearance to lab-grown meat for the first time.