A Public Health Alerts report today notes that cigarette smoking in US adults dropped from 10.8% in 2023 to 9.9% in 2024, while the use of other tobacco products, such as cigars and e-cigarettes, ...

The Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP) at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy ...

California and Arizona are co-leading the suit, joined by 12 other state attorneys and Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania. In addition to California, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, the multi-state lawsuit ...

HHS administers nearly $900 million annually through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) program and the Hospital ...

A new Annenberg poll conducted in the first half of February shows Americans are placing their trust in career scientists and ...

At 48 weeks, 1% of participants in both groups had an HIV-1 RNA level of 50 copies per milliliter or higher, meeting the ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or ...

Further analysis showed that workers who reported presenteeism earlier in the study period had significantly higher odds of being absent due to illness later in the study period. Employees who worked ...

This is part 2 in a three-part series on potential harms from taking antibiotics for dental procedures. Part 1 was published yesterday. Part 3 will publish tomorrow. All will be available here. About ...

South Carolina has been by far the hardest-hit state this year, with 632 CDC-confirmed cases, followed by Utah (117), Florida (64), and Arizona (36). Positive samples were significantly more common in ...

A Public Health Alerts report today describes the first known US multistate outbreak of infant botulism tied to powdered infant formula, identifying a clear link between illness in dozens of infants ...

An analysis involving more than 12.4 million US newborns shows that after six years of growth, receipt of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine birth dose fell more than 10 percentage points in the past ...