Pennsylvania is seeing roughly 2,000 fewer drug deaths a year. Nationwide, the number of annual deaths from drug overdoses has dropped by more than 30,000 people a year.

Seeking to serve as a counterweight to the Trump administration, a flurry of mostly blue states has created initiatives — and ...

Measles had been declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Now the disease is back with a vengeance. In February, an unvaccinated Texan child became the first person in a decade to die from measles in ...

DOGE’s first batch of published savings was riddled with errors, with experts pointing out that the math wasn’t adding up in ...

Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases ...

Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...

The Oak Park Public Health department thought that it had lost federal funding sponsoring a staff member’s place in the ...

Three months into 2025, the United States has surpassed the total number of measles cases in the country for all of last year ...

As of Friday, 320 cases had been reported across 16 states, compared to 285 cases confirmed by the CDC for all of last year, ...

The case in Stevens County, Kansas, is the first confirmed case of measles in Kansas since 2018, officials said.

A month into his role as health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s moves on vaccines have worried health ...

With the recent measles outbreaks in West Texas and New Mexico, public health officials are urging individuals to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine if they haven’t already.