The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador. The risk to public health in the US is very low ...

Older men are 13 times more likely to die by firearm suicide than women, but a new study by Boston University School of ...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite New World screwworm has been detected, according to the Department of ...

A U.S. traveler who spent time in Guatemala before returning to Maryland has been diagnosed with New World screwworm.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has chosen Retsef Levi, a member of its key vaccine panel, to lead its ...

The CDC is finalizing the termination of at least 600 employees this week, including some working in violence prevention programs.

A notorious flesh-eating parasite has been detected in a US patient for the first time in decades, health officials ...

A Legionnaires' disease cluster in the Harlem area of New York City has caused five deaths and sickened over 100 people. Here's what it is, symptoms and how it's spread.

The gunman who opened fire on the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, killing a police officer and rocking the medical research community, believed he ...

In recent decades, however, it has steadily become more common nationwide, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.