Sacramento public health officials have confirmed one pediatric measles case and about 200 potential exposures after a child visited the UC Davis Medical Center's emergency department in early May.
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The FDA is preparing to respond should bird flu begin circulating more widely among humans, though the threat the disease currently poses to humans remains low, the agency's commissioner Robert Califf, MD, told senators May 8.
Three people have contracted Mycobacterium abscessus after receiving stem cell treatments in Mexico, according to a May 9 report issued by the CDC.
A little-known parasitic infection in the brain has come into the spotlight following presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.'s admission that he once suffered from it, NBC News reported May 8.
A new COVID-19 variant now makes up 25% of cases in the nation, the CDC said.
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New research has found that nearly all people with two copies of the gene variant APOE4 develop biological markers of Alzheimer's disease, suggesting the gene may be its own, distinct form of the disease rather than only a risk factor.
As it stands, federal health officials say the risk avian flu poses to public health is low. If that were to change, hospital leaders say they don't feel any more prepared in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and they fear…
Americans living in rural counties are more likely to die of preventable causes than those living in urban areas, a new CDC study suggests.
Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University documented the world's first known case of brain disease from fentanyl inhalation.
Strange symptoms in syphilis cases are appearing sooner and in higher incidence rates than normal, CNN reported April 26.