The overall rate of obesity in the United States ticked downward between August 2021 and August 2023, breaking a streak of continued increase for over a decade.

A factor that has changed over time is hospitalization due to severe COVID infections. On Aug. 1, the statewide seven-day ...

States that once had the lowest rates have seen infections soar as the distribution of COVID-19 cases changes across the ...

More than 4 in 10 U.S. adults have obesity, putting them at risk of chronic conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, ...

Alaska’s life expectancy in 2021 was 74.5 years, down from the average of 76.6 years in 2020, according to the report from ...

Since 2015, fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have been involved in more overdose deaths than any other drug across the ...

Enterovirus D68, which in rare cases can cause polio-like paralysis in children, is on the rise in California and across the ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S. About 4 in 10 Americans have obesity overall and about 1 in 10 have severe ...

The exorbitant cost of the failing health of our kids, the needless suffering and death, can be ended by a Kennedy Commission ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has climbed since a decade ago, according to new government research.

A person in New York has died of the mosquito-borne illness eastern equine encephalitis. This marked the first human case of ...

To order free COVID test kids, go to the website COVIDtests.gov in late September, the government has announced.