Roughly 10% of U.S. adults have high cholesterol, which can raise the risk of heart disease. When eaten as part of a healthy ...

Drinking a cup or two of coffee every day may help you live longer -- but only if you skip the heavy cream and sugar, new ...

The FDA approved Gilead's HIV prevention drug lenacapavir, a twice-a-year injectable medication that clinical trials show ...

The CDC reports a significant increase in death rates from unintentional falls among Americans aged 65 and older in recent ...

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that men seek therapy at roughly half the rate of women ...

Critics say Kennedy is ordering a review of childhood vaccines to stoke skepticism, risking the spread of disease.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior recently fired all members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...

Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family's commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead or lethargic birds during a barn inspection in January.

A new Covid-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or Nimbus, represents about a third of new US Covid-19 cases. Dr. Leana Wen answers ...

Since 2022, the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in all 50 states, leading to more than 1,700 recorded outbreaks affecting nearly 175 million birds.

The last measles outbreak of a similar scale occurred in 2019, when a total of 1,274 cases were confirmed across the country.