As the Trump administration slashes and transforms the National Institutes of Health (NIH), minority health researchers are ...

New evidence suggests that introducing common sources of food allergies in the first year of life is associated with reductions in new cases in children. But prevention is only part of the story.

For years, parents were told not to expose their babies to peanuts, to prevent a potentially dangerous allergy. But 10 years ago, a landmark study found the opposite to be true, stating that if babies ...

In this study, physician-diagnosed peanut allergies in children ages 0-3 declined by 27.2% after guidelines recommended early peanut product introduction. The 2017 national guidelines recommended ...

Peanut allergies in babies and children up to age 3 dropped by more than one-quarter since the first consensus statement recommending the introduction of peanut products in infancy was issued in 2015, ...

WASHINGTON (Oct. 23, 2025) — A new study estimates that nearly one in five urinary tract infections in Southern California may be caused by E. coli strains transmitted through contaminated meat – and ...

The Trump administration has whiffed its deadline to ban lab-made pandemic viruses by more than eight weeks, worrying biosafety hawks and undercutting assurances from the National Institutes of Health ...

A new study has found that children with a certain type of peanut allergy may benefit from gradually increasing their exposure to peanut butter, potentially reducing their allergic reactions over time ...

There were 5% more federal workers — 2.77 million in 2020 to 2.90 million in 2025 — when Joe Biden left the White House, but ...

Peak respiratory virus season is quickly approaching in Illinois, and public health officials recommend three vaccines, ...

Chicago's new Syphilis Elimination Plan, released earlier this month, hopes to address an alarming increase here in ...