If the new administration embraces proposals to cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's budget and its mission, ...

Overdose deaths increased in Nevada and four other states as national numbers declined, according to provisional data ...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, raising concerns among public health ...

Some rural Kansas counties are offering free flu vaccines targeting farm workers amid an ongoing nationwide bird flu outbreak ...

The reasoning actually favors epidemiologists but hopefully will keep our rural neighbors from being so sneeze-y this holiday ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once suggested US health scientists "give infectious disease a break." Trump just picked him for health ...

U.S. overdose deaths declined in 2023 in a recent report, according to the CDC. Locally, those on the front lines of addiction hope to continue that trend. In Cape Girardeau, The Gibson Center ...

Overdose deaths declined for the second year in a row, fanning health experts’ hopes that the opioid crisis could be turning ...

Although 2.46 million new instances of STIs were reported, the last year saw a significant drop in cases of gonorrhea and primary and secondary syphilis — primarily driven by the LGBTQ+ community.

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the country’s most notorious vaccine skeptics, to ...

Experts are unsure as to what is causing the decline, which saw deaths decrease by some 14% between June 2023 and 2024.

If you've had more than one friend cancel plans due to a nasty "stomach flu" or "stomach bug," they might actually have ...