The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections.

Nationwide, there have been seven measles deaths in less than two years despite measles having been eliminated in 2000. From 2001 through 2024 there were only three measles deaths.

Healthcare analyst Charles Gaba reports up to 10 million Americans lost coverage under Trump's second term. Medicaid, CHIP, ACA enrollment down.

Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.

The RSV immunization period has been extended by most states as the CDC reports 96 additional measles cases and four new pediatric influenza-associated deaths.

Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.

The recall follows complaints of a “gel-like mass and black particles in the product.”

Political instability is upending global travel—if booked, you should check your insurance policies closely.

Partners in Health's Dr. Joia Mukherjee says she's seen children die of malnutrition and go blind from malaria because of the loss in humanitarian aid.

Dentists, hygienists, and researchers say a shortage of rural dental care professionals and worsening oral hygiene since the COVID-19 pandemic mean more kids are ending up in the emergency room for to...

Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

Health experts say the federal government now shares less public health data, even after Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ promised “radical transparency.”

To date, the WHO has certified 200 countries free of Guinea worm disease.

The harrowing, deadly infection could make a comeback, especially in states vulnerable to climate-linked natural disasters, like Florida and Texas, an NBC News investigation finds.

It isn’t Denmark.

Research highlighting chronic inflammation opens path to treating illness that affects millions of Americans.

At least 14 cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported in central Florida with a possible link to a gym.

Health officials have recommended a universal birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine since 1991. Annual hepatitis B infections among infants and children have dropped 99% from 16,000 to less than 20.

New details from health officials suggest the whooping-cough surge may be part of a national pattern driven by slipping vaccine coverage and waning immunity, with infants bearing the brunt of the cons...

Maina Modu, an immunization officer in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, lost his wife, Hauwa, to cervical cancer in 2011. She was one of the 349,000 women globally who die from the preventable canc...

Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.

Thirteen babies have been hospitalized amid the outbreak of the disease, which can be fatal, federal heath officials said. No deaths have been reported.

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One charter school in South Carolina's Upstate region had an immunization rate at just 17%, according to state health data.

Nine-month-old baby Mohamat burned with fever for three days before his family took him to the closest health centre in northern Cameroon, but it was too late. He died of malaria that day.

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This cross-sectional study investigates population-level effectiveness and herd protection in the first 17 years after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among adolescent girls and young women at ...

As fewer children get their flu shots, cases of a rare, severe complication are rising. Last season, the U.S. experienced the highest number of pediatric flu deaths in 15 years.

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.