Drug overdose deaths in the Chicago area mirror a statewide and national trend showing a sharp decline from 2023 to 2024.

Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health, said there is an urgent need to intensify ...

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US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly claimed in public statements that most vaccines ...

U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients ...

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for ...

Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—just as harm reduction was beginning to work ...

Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos of the U.S. CDC resigned on Tuesday as co-leader of a ...

He added that it is estimated that from 2016 to 2030 the cost of chronic disease will be in excess of $42 trillion. "The time ...

Eliminating the injury center would be akin to pulling firefighters off the scene while the fire is still burning.

Nearly 1,900 children up to 18 years of age died of COVID-19 in the U.S. as per CDC's estimates last updated in 2023.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated advice on the COVID-19 vaccine days after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said the agency would no longer ...