Only a dozen states have laws establishing suicide prevention offices or coordinators, and just 11 have task forces or ...

At his recent annual physical, Columnist Barth Keck received the vaccine for pneumococcal pneumonia because his age group had been added to the list of people recommended for the shot. Not much of a ...

Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.

The rise in COVID-19 infections comes as providers wrestle with how to navigate shifted federal vaccine recommendations.

We usually think of cancer as an older person’s disease and past years’ statistics have shown this to be mostly true.

Susan Monarez is the first director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to require Senate confirmation. She's ...

A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The ...

The Senate voted 51-47 to confirm Monarez on Tuesday. Both Georgia Senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, voted no. This ...

A mobile unit that provides free black lung screenings to coal miners is up and running again this month after federal cuts ...

After months of leadership uncertainty, the US Senate confirms Dr. Susan Monarez as CDC Director, bringing stability and ...