A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds, after a period of stability between 2000 and 2007, the suicide rate among children and adolescents aged 10-24 increased 56 percent between 2007 and 2017.
Officials in Nevada are working to keep wild animals with the highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of their state.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning in a report released this month that deer can transmit certain strains of tuberculosis to hunters.
Public health officials are urging people to refrain from holding events outside after dusk after three people in Michigan died from a mosquito-borne illness.
A mother in the United Kingdom who was told by doctors that her son would die following a premature birth is now celebrating his first day of school.
Since September 2018, nearly 900 migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border have been confirmed or suspected to have mumps, a federal report reveals.
As Democrats focus on banning and, in some cases, confiscating AR-15-style rifles under the guise of making citizens safe, now is a good time to shine a light on the 18 daily causes of death for Americans.
Following the largest measles outbreak in the U.S.since 1992, some 50,000 unvaccinated children are heading back to school in Wisconsin.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reportedly investigation 153 possible cases of lung disease that may be associated with e-cigarettes and vaping. The sudden lung problems are primarily occuring amongst adolescents and young adults.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will ask President Donald Trump to use his $5 billion set aside for border wall construction to combat gun violence and white supremacy.
The Hepatitis A virus is reportedly spreading across the country in the wake of the opioid crisis, mostly affecting drug users and the homeless.
A Georgia woman who claimed on social media that she was HIV-positive and infecting men with the virus is being investigated by the police.
Beijing on Monday denied U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl killing thousands of Americans each year.
Mexico has only one gun store and stringent gun controls, neither of which prevented the murders of 3,080 in that country in June alone.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths finally stopped climbing last year. And they apparently fell a little — the first such decline in nearly three decades.
Drugmakers and distributors dispensed 76 billion pills to commercial pharmacies over the past seven years, according to an analysis of federal data released Wednesday.
Federal public health officials have issued a warning to summer swimmers regarding a trend of increasing outbreaks of cryptosporidium.
After a routine family excursion to a local Florida beach, Lynn Fleming has died from “a small cut” that turned fatal.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a warning after 60 people became sick with salmonella linked to papayas.
A child who became sick from E. coli following a visit to the San Diego County Fair died on Monday.
Democrat gun control advocates gathered at the Capitol on Thursday to put out a rally call for the Senate to take up the universal background check for gun purchases bill the House passed 114 days ago, claiming 11,400 people have since died from “gun violence.”
The CDC’s most recent reporting reveals 1,044 cases of measles in 28 U.S. states — the highest rate of infection since 1992.
Nearly half of the dedicated members of the Central Oklahoma Parrothead Association (COPA), a Jimmy Buffett fan group, ended up very sick during their trip to the Dominican Republic in April.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that an average of 4,500 people are detained at the United States border with Mexico each day, and according to a Wednesday report from county health officials, many of them are bringing diseases with them.
The U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) has officially removed the term “transgender” from the classification of mental disorders.
Authorities have issued a response to reports of serious infection at the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley station in Reseda.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call on Monday that the recent measles outbreak in the United States was “completely avoidable.”
The current measles outbreak in the United States is so widespread the country could lose its “measles free” status in the coming months.
Iowa Republican lawmakers passed a health and human services budget bill that blocks Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from sex education funding.
As the number of measles cases reported reaches the highest number since the highly contagious disease was eliminated in the United States in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) are speaking out about the need for people to use the safe and effective vaccine to end the outbreak.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has officially confirmed the presence of Triatoma sanguisuga in Delaware for the first time.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Monday that 626 cases of measles had been reported in 22 states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a “Dear Colleague” letter Wednesday with warnings about the high prevalence and risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among transgender individuals.
One case of measles has struck Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, adding to the overall increase of measles outbreaks being reported since the beginning of 2019. So far, there have been more reports of measles in the first three months of 2019 than in all of 2018, despite the disease having been officially eradicated in the United States in 2000.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge say the measles outbreak is a threat to national security.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Monday that 555 cases of measles have been confirmed in 20 states.
The CDC reports more measles cases have been documented in the first three months of 2019 than in all of 2018.
The nation’s opioid crisis is killing young white American men more than any other demographic group, new research from the federal government reveals.
The Washington Post on Wednesday published a searing indictment of the Obama administration for disregarding a plea from health experts to declare a public health emergency for overdoses from fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that was already racking up a body count in 2016 and would go on to kill thousands of people over the next three years.
Pro-life members of Congress and activists expressed shock on Tuesday on the failure of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
