Abortion policy and pro-choice candidates sustained victories in several states in what was the second election cycle since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Compared to 2012, more than 10 times as many congenital syphilis cases were reported in 2022, marking a 1,022% jump in newborn syphilis cases, according to CDC data released Nov. 7.
Central Maine Medical Center has discharged the first of three patient survivors of the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston that killed 18 and wounded 13.
Health officials in Northern California have contacted more than 300 people who could have been exposed to tuberculosis at a casino in Pacheco.
Weekly emergency department visits for flu and respiratory syncytial virus have been on the rise the past few weeks, while visits for COVID-19 have decreased.
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Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico and the District of Columbia, are the only areas of the nation reporting moderate to high levels of flu activity, according to CDC data as of Nov. 3.
Four major airports across the U.S. will become sites of an expanded infectious disease surveillance effort from the CDC's Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program, according to a Nov. 6 news release.
Hospital emergency departments saw child firearm injuries nearly double during the pandemic, a new study found.
Life expectancy for New York City residents dropped by nearly five years between 2019 and 2020, and now, the health department is launching a campaign to target the contributing factors that led to the decline.
A second case of rare, locally acquired dengue has been confirmed by California health officials in Long Beach. The report comes just over a week after a first was reported in Pasadena.