Public Health

Women and patients with multiple COVID-19 infections face an increased risk of developing long COVID, recent studies suggest. 

HHS is investing more than $800 million in vaccine development and manufacturing capacity to strengthen the nation's response capabilities to emerging infectious disease threats, including bird flu. 

Respiratory illness activity remains elevated across the U.S., with emergency department visits and positive test rates rising for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, according to the CDC. 

Clinicians serving influenza A patients should test them for bird flu, ideally within 24 hours of hospital admission, the CDC said Jan. 16. 

On Jan. 15, a group of international experts proposed new ways to define and diagnose obesity that place less emphasis on body mass index. 

A surge in norovirus infections this season has resulted in a 28% positivity rate, more than double 2024's high, alarming health officials, CBS News reported Jan. 14. 

The alcohol advisory released by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, is "likely only one in an evolving history of landmark public health documents about the dangers of drinking; it's a document for the archives as well as the moment," Rachael…

The number of U.S. adults with dementia is expected to double, from 514,000 in 2020 to 1 million in 2060, according to a study published Jan. 13 in Nature Medicine. 

Respiratory illness activity remains high across the U.S., with emergency department visits and positive test rates rising for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. 

Polio, a disease that in the past paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, is making a comeback in the U.S. due to vaccine skepticism and declining immunization rates, The New York Times reported Jan. 13.