"This is not local to one area; it's everywhere," said researchers about the drug, whose most common users are eighth grade ...

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention is set to issue a travel notice to China as potentially-deadly chikungunya ...

For two decades, Washington, D.C., pediatrician Lanre Falusi has counseled parents about vaccine safety, side effects, and ...

On issues such as vaccination and fluoridation of public water supplies, some of Monarez’s comments appeared to be at odds with those of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A state environmental official said this week the state doesn't test freshwater bodies of water for deadly “brain-eating” ...

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Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered ...

State health experts in Alabama advise caution around animals following recent dog attacks that killed two people.

“Usually, in the fall, you’re going to have allergies and asthma flare-ups when school starts back,” Harris said. “Give it a week or two, sometimes even a month, you’ll have all the normal illnesses ...

Virginia’s two senators sent a letter to the Navy Secretary requesting a briefing on the disappearance and death of Seaman Angelina Resendiz. Resendiz, who was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, went ...