The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that drug overdose deaths have decline by nearly 27% in 2024. The agency credits strengthened public health infrastructure and community ...

Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...

Overcrowding, poor ventilation, malnutrition, and high HIV prevalence have created a perfect breeding area for TB ...

For many months now, the city of Milwaukee has been grappling with a lead poisoning crisis that has forced at least four schools to temporarily close and dozens more to undergo rigorous inspections.

Kat Cisar and her six-year-old twins, who attend a Milwaukee school that was found to have hazardous lead in the building.

The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the ...

According to the CDC, the deadliest drugs were those containing ... President Donald Trump has highlighted fentanyl overdoses as a public health crisis and national emergency, and repeatedly ...

The CDC is already under heightened scrutiny for its central role in crafting divisive COVID-19 policies during the pandemic. Its response to any public health crisis under Trump — measles being ...

Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States in 2024 to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new CDC ...