Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country ...

Between 2009 and 2023, at least 47 Americans died of tetanus, a bacterial infection that has been preventable with a widely ...

A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading ...

Emergency room visits for tick bites are higher than usual across much of the country, including the Northeast, according to ...

President Trump's CDC director nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz has medical professionals praising the former Coast Guard ...

Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about the latest news out of ...

Vibrio vulnificus — the flesh-eating bacteria fatal for 1 in 5 people — was found in Long Island waters, including Sagaponack ...

Investigators estimated that an outbreak along the Arizona/Utah state line has been at least 6.5 times larger than the number ...

The report's release had been delayed after the CDC's acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, expressed concerns about its ...

Sources familiar with the decision who spoke to The Post anonymously said the report had passed the CDC’s scientific review before the delay.

The Washington Post, which first reported the news on Wednesday, said earlier this month that the CDC had delayed publication of the report that showed the vaccines reduced emergency department visits ...

A Black mother of three talks about her scary experiences with her pregnancies that could have taken her life. She explains how racial inequities lead to preventable problems.