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The Centers for Disease Control released findings last week of two cases of a “drug-resistant” infection in New York.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting Friday.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause. That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.

The U.S. has approved the first vaccine for RSV, shots to protect older adults against a respiratory virus that’s most notorious for attacking babies but endangers their grandparents, as well.

The rise of US teen girls considering suicide in 2021 — the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic — substantially increased from 2019.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday reported a shortage of an injectable form of penicillin, an antibiotic used to treat syphilis and other bacterial infections like strep throat.

U.S. adults are smoking less. Cigarette smoking dropped to another new all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers.

For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released the new estimates of how common autism is. It estimates that 1 in 36 children who were age 8 in 2020 had autism. That’s up from 1 in...

Even as law enforcement in New Jersey tries to wrap a criminal investigation into fentanyl overdoses of five women, one of whom died, at an upscale mall, federal drug authorities are warning of even more dangerous substances. Fentanyl, which is what the women in the Shops at Riverside mall case ingested last week, can be used to lace drugs like…

The CDC reported Tuesday that three people have died, and four others have had eyeballs removed because of bacterial infections linked to contaminated eyedrops.

The fungus, called Candida auris, was first reported in the United States in 2016.

The fungus, a type of yeast called Candida auris, or C. auris, can cause severe illness in people with weakened immune systems.

The tick-borne disease is spreading in the U.S., according to a CDC report.

Cases of a worldwide tick-borne disease have significantly increased in the Northeastern United States between 2011 and 2019, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A new study finds an unexpected jump in unexplained deaths in Black infants during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.

Federal health officials are warning parents of newborns to sterilize equipment used for both bottle- and breast-feeding after a baby died last year from a rare infection tied to a contaminated breast pump.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against the drug-resistant bacteria.

Despite the troubling trend reported by the CDC, sexual violence experts have an empowering message: ‘Our girls are not broken.’

A report released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control paints an alarming picture of American teenagers, their mental health and experiences of sexual violence, particularly among young women of high school age. 

A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that high school students in the U.S., especially teen girls, are experiencing an unprecedented “wave of violence and trauma.”