President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to start soon after they were picked. But under a law passed by Congress in ...

President Trump has imposed temporary freezes at the National Institutes of Health on meetings, travel, communications and ...

Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.

Listeria infection, otherwise known as listeriosis, is the third leading cause of death from foodborne illness in the U.S.

As avian flu outbreaks continue to hit US poultry farm s and backyard flocks, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal ...

Public health officials are warning that the U.S. could be facing a “quademic” — the convergence of four miserable viruses ...

The Trump administration has placed a pause on all external health communications from federal health agencies, including the ...

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial ...

Mask up if you're headed to a Brown University hospital — but newly acquired St. Anne’s in Fall River and Morton in Taunton are exempt. Here's why.

While many drinkers cut back, some people who consume 15 or more drinks a week say they are unfazed by health risks.

The EPA's revised standards extended the cleanup boundary in Butte to include more than 7,253 homes in a 25-year time frame.

The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is ...