The latest CDC survey found 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. were obese. A map shows the states with the highest and lowest rates.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday that it will reorganize its Office of Health Equity ...

More than 100 million American adults have obesity and more than 20 million adults have severe obesity, U.S. figures show.

The COVID-19 variant KP.3.1.1 rose 12.7% and now makes up over 50% of COVID cases, the CDC Nowcast data tracker shows.

The latest human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in a patient with no reported exposure to affected animals, sparking ...

Data published this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms a trend, already reported anecdotally by emergency department staff across the country, that deaths from ...

CDC researchers recently found that 60% of children and teens in American Samoa had been infected with dengue — a troubling ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were ...

National Nurses United in May was proud to announce that Jane Thomason, its lead industrial hygienist, was invited to join ...

Lyme disease is the most prevalent insect-borne disease in the US, with far more cases each year than other diseases such as ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), foodborne illnesses are a major public health concern in the United States and are responsible for about 48 million people becoming ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises hospitals to improve diagnoses by improving communication with ...