“About half the world’s population is now at risk for dengue with an expected 100 to 400 million infections occurring each ...

With less than 5% of infected individuals in Texas vaccinated, health officials highlight the urgent need for increased ...

Here's everything medical experts want you to know about how vaccines work. Vaccines work by imitating an infection to teach the body how to recognize and defend itself from disease without ...

Pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are trending in the wrong direction, a newly published study reveals. The term ...

NPR looked at the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative policy think tank that's behind legislation to ...

Confirmed U.S. measles cases broke 1,000 in the second week of May, surpassing last year's total by nearly four times.

The latest measles update from the CDC reports a total of 935 confirmed cases — the vast majority of which are among patients ...

Even critics of the global health organization say that the United States' withdrawal won’t solve pressing problems.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) have today announced a sublicensing agreement between MPP and a Nigerian health technology company – Codix Bio – to start ...

Measles outbreaks are surging in North America and Europe, prompting warnings that the world may be entering a ...

Public health is as old as civilization. As soon as people began to live together in settled places and formed ...