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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

In its latest update, the CDC said the second health care worker wasn’t tested for influenza because the illness had resolved ...

Learn how wastewater surveillance is now being used to detect foodborne pathogens like Salmonella, offering a new tool in ...

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

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

US health officials have warned for months about a resurgence in breakthrough infections in older children and adults, even though unvaccinated young children and newborns of unvaccinated moms remain ...