Smoking rates among teenagers are getting to be the lowest in almost three decades, the CDC says, and while that’s generally ...

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

More than 250 cases of measles have been reported in the U.S., nearly all of which have been associated with three outbreaks, ...

As measles outbreaks in the US continue to grow, particularly in Texas and New Mexico, Colorado public health officials are ...

Measles is not often seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas. So far, one unvaccinated child died ...

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 ...

The current measles vaccine was developed in 1968 after the original was created in 1963. It is the only measles vaccine used in the U.S. It is usually combined with mumps and rubella (MMR) or mumps, ...

Only three months into 2025, the United States has seen 308 measles cases. Local health experts say low vaccination rates are ...

The U.S. has recorded more than 300 cases of measles in just the first three months of this year, according to data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the ...

Bacterial foodborne outbreaks in the U.S. increased while viral outbreaks declined between 2014 and 2022, with environmental ...