SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory syncytial virus continue to cause significant morbidity and mortality in the US, particularly among infants and older adults, underscoring the importance of vaccination, ...

A group of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations has suspended an anticipated push to stop recommending mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines ...

Waterborne pathogens, particularly Cryptosporidium, pose a growing public-health risk in Australia and globally. Cryptosporidiosis notifications have increased markedly in recent years across multiple ...

Infectious disease can afflict a population in complex ways. Understanding the varying risks is an equally complex challenge.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been without a permanent director since the removal of Susan Monarez in August. Its recently installed acting director, Jay Bhattacharya, is also ...

Changes in federal prescribing recommendations follow deliberate and transparent processes involving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists, which normally include input from stakeholders ...

A new study projects that global breast cancer cases could exceed 3.5 million annually by 2050, highlighting a sharp rise in ...

Despite recent advancements in breast cancer treatments, new breast cancer cases in women are predicted to rise by a third ...

Trump plans to nominate a new director at the nation’s top health agency following months of upheaval.

While researchers gain new insights into the transmission of Buruli ulcer in Australia, public health specialists in Africa are working to engage traditional healers. Sophie Cousins reports.

In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health ...

You can’t blame this one on the stork. After a brief baby bump early in the COVID-19 pandemic, birth rates in the US and other wealthy countries dropped as the public health emergency eased. That ...