As the US grapples with an ongoing bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle, the country’s health agencies are ramping up ...

There have been no cases of chronic wasting disease in people to date, the CDC says. But it is still investigating the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — the federal agency that monitors diseases and establishes guidelines ...

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Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut says two companies have refused to address "broad, unverified safety claims ...

Here’s a rundown of which vaccines are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and how Medicare covers ...

Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like ...

Long Island is one of the epicenters for Lyme disease. Education and prevention are keys to avoiding tick bites and ...

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The total fertility rate, which estimates how many children an average woman would have over the course of her life, was just ...

Although the disease is rare, the number of reported cases of people sick from the virus has increased in recent years, the ...

Here in New Jersey, we were one of the worst states in the country for marriages with 5.1 marriages for every one thousand ...