Last week, surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy called to add cancer-risk warnings to alcohol labels. While it’s no secret that ...

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host an expert briefing for the media to discuss trends in tobacco ...

Norovirus infections can occur at any time of year, but they tend to peak during the colder winter months—that happens every ...

The U.S. has experienced its first death from bird flu (H5N1). The death happened in a Louisiana patient who contracted H5N1 after being exposed to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and ...

A study seems to establish a link between oral herpes virus, which causes mouth cold sores, and Alzheimer’s disease. The study was published in Cell Reports on Jan. 2.

Amid the deadliest year of Birmingham’s history, firearms remained the leading cause of death for Alabama children and teens, according to a recent Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions ...

That cold sore on your lip might be painful and unsightly, but it could also be a harbinger of debilitating brain agin ...

Have you seen reports about a “new” virus spreading in China? HMPV was first identified in 2001. Here are the symptoms it ...

Emergency room visits for flu and RSV are very high, according to the latest data, with numbers for COVID-19 low for now but ...

Cases of a respiratory virus that causes flu-like symptoms are surging in China, raising plenty of questions about what this ...

Norovirus tends to come on hard and fast. “Nausea and or vomiting are usually the first symptoms of norovirus,” says ...