New research could aid in improving whooping cough vaccines to once again push this disease toward eradication by targeting two key weaknesses in the infection.

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Hantavirus – the virus that causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and took the life of Gene Hackman's wife Betsy – has ...

Six young children at a Texas daycare center have tested positive for measles — a dreaded scenario with the potential to accelerate an already out-of-control outbreak. The Department of State Health ...

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Rep. Blake Moore, vice chair of the Republican Conference, was appointed to chair the House Budget Committee’s Health Care ...

Mothers, babies, and professionals at HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital participated in the global “Big Latch On” event that ...

Protesters, including CDC employees, gathered to denounce job cuts that have left thousands of public health workers ...

The state health department and Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment have now identified three locations where ...

Employees at the HHS regional office and a CDC occupational safety laboratory in Spokane were abruptly fired. Head Start ...

The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.

The Trump administration this week gutted a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention division that monitors infertility and ...