The overall rate of obesity in the United States ticked downward between August 2021 and August 2023, breaking a streak of ...

The latest CDC survey found 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. were obese. A map shows the states with the highest and lowest rates.

More than 4 in 10 U.S. adults have obesity, putting them at risk of chronic conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, ...

CDC researchers recently found that 60% of children and teens in American Samoa had been infected with dengue — a troubling ...

More than 100 million American adults have obesity and more than 20 million adults have severe obesity, U.S. figures show.

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were ...

Data published this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms a trend, already reported anecdotally by emergency department staff across the country, that deaths from ...

Learn how wastewater surveillance is now being used to detect foodborne pathogens like Salmonella, offering a new tool in ...

The latest human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in a patient with no reported exposure to affected animals, sparking ...

A factor that has changed over time is hospitalization due to severe COVID infections. On Aug. 1, the statewide seven-day ...

National Nurses United in May was proud to announce that Jane Thomason, its lead industrial hygienist, was invited to join ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), foodborne illnesses are a major public health concern in the United States and are responsible for about 48 million people becoming ...