Editor’s note: Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017, is president and chief executive...

Dengue fever, the world's most common mosquito-spread disease, is spiking in the Americas, with 2,241 cases detected in the U.S. between Jan. 1 and...

CNN  —  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning to doctors on Tuesday to be on the look out for cases of dengue. A...

WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2024 -- On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory warning of a heightened risk of...

The health care system has stockpiles of medicine and has worked out “a lot of the kinks” since the Covid pandemic. But experts still have some...

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials on Wednesday made a stronger endorsement for RSV vaccinations for people 75 and older, but offered a narrower...

WEDNESDAY, July 3, 2024 -- Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows, a fourth case of H5N1 avian flu has been confirmed in another dairy...

THURSDAY, June 27, 2024 -- Only one-quarter of adults who needed opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment in 2022 received medications for OUD, according...

Moderna (MRNA) expects this funding to help support the development of its mRNA-based pre-pandemic vaccine against the H5 influenza virus, which is...

TUESDAY, July 2, 2024 -- U.S. health officials announced Tuesday that the federal government will pay Moderna $176 million to speed development of a...