The U.S. obesity rate is about 40%, according to a 2021-2023 survey of about 6,000 people. Nearly 1 in 10 of those surveyed ...

Wastewater surveillance reveals influenza A and H5 subtype detections, providing critical insights into public health risks ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S. About 4 in 10 Americans have obesity overall and about 1 in 10 have severe ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were ...

More than 100 million American adults have obesity and more than 20 million adults have severe obesity, U.S. figures show.

The latest CDC survey found 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. were obese. A map shows the states with the highest and lowest rates.

New York's first person to contract Eastern equine encephalitis -- or EEE -- in almost a decade has died, the governor's ...

Federal officials are raising concerns about a possible link between declining vaccination rates and a surge in pediatric flu ...

State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo spread anti-vaccine misinformation by telling Floridians to avoid mRNA vaccines. Vaccine ...

Whooping cough cases have gone up in the U.S. compared to last year, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease ...

Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

The side effects of newly discovered COVID strain XEC might not be more severe, but appears to be more contagious, ...