Summer temperatures can often reach dangerous levels, even in states like Connecticut that aren't known for extreme heat. The state averages more than 500 emergency room visits each year due to ...

Want a COVID-19 vaccination this fall? For many Americans, it’s not clear how easy it will be to get one — and some doctors already see signs of trouble.

Urine drug test (UDT) data can generate timely estimates of overdose deaths, a new study suggests.

The Communicable Disease Center was opened in 1946 with the intent of stopping the spread of malaria throughout the United States. The beginning budget was $10 million for an agency employing 400 ...

Florida’s chart, which contains current trends for communicable diseases, has long been relied ... something is spreading for which we have a prevention,” said Marty, with Florida ...

Sutton stressed the rising rate of healthcare expenditures as chronic disease plagues the country. He said a focus on prevention is not easy, but is necessary, and that the food industry’s grip ...

Significant disparities exist in the rates, risk factors, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Cardiovascular disease, also known as heart disease, is the leading cause of death ...

Neither were involved in the new research. “The prevention of neurodegenerative diseases may begin at the dinner table,” they wrote. “Excessive UPF consumption not only is a risk factor for ...

About two weeks after the garden party, he was well again. Babesiosis is rare — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports around 2,000 cases in the United States every year.

Alzheimer’s disease prevention focuses on identifying and modifying the lifestyle factors that increase your risk for dementia. As you improve the health variables that contribute to Alzheimer’s ...

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Roni Caryn Rabin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...