Three scientists who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China fell ill with an unspecified sickness in November 2019, refueling the debate over the COVID-19 pandemic's origins, according to a June 20 report from The Wall Street Journal.
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Medical care at the U.S. border has been determined to be "unsafe" by investigators who were investigating the May death of an 8-year-old migrant girl, The Washington Post reported June 22.
The New Mexico Department of Health is reporting another case of Hantavirus, the state's sixth case since 2023 began, as well as a second death from the virus.
After 16 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S., 88 percent of which were linked with international travel, the CDC on June 21 issued a health advisory warning about the uptick.
The CDC is investigating samples from a 42-year-old patient in Brazil who died after contracting H1N1, a type of flu that spreads among pigs, the World Health Organization said June 16. It's unclear how the woman caught the virus.
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The prevalence of depression is highest in West Virginia and lowest in Hawaii, according to newly released CDC data.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force — which has long advocated for physicians to provide patients with mental health assessments — is now recommending all adults under 65 be screened for anxiety disorders, the group announced June 20.
COVID hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline, but the virus' future has three options: control, elimination or eradication, according to Anthony Fauci, MD, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. At a June 13 conference, he…
All 21 members of an FDA committee voted to urge development of an XBB-targeted COVID-19 vaccine during a June 15 panel.
There were 25,640 fewer abortions performed by clinicians in the U.S. between July 2022 and March 2023, since Roe v. Wade was overturned following the outcome of Dobbs v. Jackson last June, according to a new report from Denver-based non-profit, the Society…