Turning of the clocks has been linked to an additional 2.6 million obesity cases and 300,000 strokes. Learn more about the ...

CDC analysis uncovers which states experienced the sharpest obesity increases since 2013, with New Mexico leading at a ...

Drugstores are ready to deliver COVID-19 vaccines this fall, and insurers plan to cover them, even though new CDC advisers declined to recommend them.

Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may ...

Our lifestyles have changed quite a bit over the last several decades.Almost everything is becoming more convenient and ...

For 715 consecutive days — every single day — I put on full protective gear in the ICU at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, fighting COVID-19 on the frontlines. I never took a day off, because ...

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official accused Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of lying to senators during a contentious hearing Thursday and ...

During a tense Senate hearing on Thursday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his decision to oust CDC director Susan Monarez, PhD, and faced questions on his agenda for vaccination and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation's -- if not the world's -- premier public health organization, is mired in a crisis that not only threatens Americans' health ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited his father, Robert Kennedy, a former U.S. attorney general and senator from New York, while testifying on Capitol Hill about backlash over the Trump ...

Our study highlights a concerning 3-fold increase in obesity-related cancer deaths since 1999,” said study author Faizan Ahmed, MD.

But the recent turmoil at the CDC caused by the firing of former CDC Director Susan Monarez and the exodus of several senior officials, along with Kennedy’s view on vaccines, became a focal point for ...