The authors have each served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One misguided narrative is that the CDC should focus only on a “core mission” of combatting infectious ...

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It's tick season now, and Lyme disease feels one bite away in Connecticut. Emergency room visits for tick bites have reached their highest levels for this time of year since 2017. Several regions of ...

Through the work of the American Heart Association strides are being made to prevent, treat and manage heart disease.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will provide approximately $12 million to ...

As the risk of disease-carrying mosquitoes entering South Korea from abroad increases alongside climate change, health authorities are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance mosquito ...

Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s leading cause of disability and death. Such diseases were responsible in 2019 for an estimated 18.6 million deaths globally and 957,000 deaths in the United ...

Shown are mean surface air temperatures from 2011 to 2021 as compared with baseline mean temperatures from 1956 to 1976. Adapted from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard ...