Last year’s flu season was long, brutal and tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100,000 had ...

The Big Cities Health Coalition is the latest group to take a strong public stand in support of vaccination as a direct response to concerns that the federal government is limiting access and raising ...

As the elderly population increases due to aging, the proportion of fall patients over 70 years old has increased by 2.1 ...

The states with the highest obesity rates were found throughout the Plains, the South, and into the Midwest, while coastal ...

Determining how certain diseases are spread is an invaluable step in the process of controlling outbreaks. Experts make ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in ...

A decade after a historic HIV outbreak in Indiana, syringe programs that helped contain the crisis are at risk of ...

The national birth rate for females 15-19 years old was 13.1 per 1,000 females and Ohio’s teen birth rate is 14.6 per 1,000 ...

Scientists found ALS and MS share a strong geographic pattern, suggesting common environmental causes behind both.

Get the flu once, they say, and you’ll never skip your flu shot again. If such wisdom holds true, we’re either getting healthier or better at forgetting what it feels like to be really sick. As of Oct ...

NYC sees between 1,500 and 2,000 deaths annually due to the flu and pneumonia combined, according to the city Health ...