For older adults, the flu vaccine could look a little different this year. Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration ...

Four of the ticks were found to carry Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and four others carried Borrelia miyamotoi, a bacterium that causes hard tick relapsing fever and is almost always thought to be ...

President’s order calls for several changes to childhood vaccinations – and experts say it’ll lead to confusion ...

The editor-in-chief of Australia’s leading medical journal, who likened Donald Trump to the communist mass murderer Pol Pot, has not listed her politicised commentary as a potential conflict of ...

Two Senate Republicans released a set of 2021 texts that show Dr. Anthony Fauci discussing how to "weigh the potential risks against the benefits" of pregnant women taking COVID-19 vaccines.

There's no other way to spin the executive order saying children should no longer get vaccines for diseases like meningitis ...

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician, posted a blunt rebuke on X: “I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.

It is not clear whether the order, the president’s third to address the topic in less than a year, has any legal power.

The “Risky or Not” podcast is billed as being “a short podcast about everyday risks from germs,” and it’s an easy way to stay informed about the latest outbreaks of foodborne illness.

That’s the key to how infectious-disease experts rank risk: The things that feel gross and the things that actually make you ...

Heat and tainted produce have made this a record summer for foodborne illness. Cases of cyclosporiasis have topped 10,000, and the CDC just traced a new salmonella outbreak to Mexican jalapeños.

A doctor reveals four surprising benefits of daily walking, from sharper brain function to better circulation and healthy ...