“It is with great sadness to report that my client Kenneth Colley passed away Monday 30th June at around 5:30pm in hospital ...

Inside one of those nondescript rooms last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an independent ...

Officials have closed off swimming at beaches in at least six states due to high bacteria levels. Here's where those closures are.

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

A CDC advisory has recommended to ban the use of thimerosal in flu shots despite no evidence that it causes any harm.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the members of his newly appointed vaccine panel are casting doubt on the hepatitis B vaccine and the established practice of vaccinating ...

Frank DeStefano, MD, MPH, was there in the early days of the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), which first came online in 1990, when the agency convinced four health maintenance organizations ...

A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

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Grasp the tick as close to the skin's surface as possible using clean fine-tipped tweezers. If fine-tipped tweezers are not ...

With West Nile virus present in Texas, mosquito bites escalate beyond an itchy annoyance to a potentially deadly threat.

Martin County Sheriff's Office deputies have responded to three child drowning incidents in the past three weeks.