Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Health officials are alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare, serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and ...

There's a new way for young people to combat a bacterial disease that can cause hearing loss, severe neurological damage, the loss of limbs, and, in many cases, death. Meningococcal disease, while ...

Federal health officials upended the immunization schedule for American children this week. These are the diseases affected.