Your Body Mass Index (BMI) is often an indicator to diagnose obesity. Combating obesity is paramount to overall health. According to The National Health Institute, 1 in 3 adults are considered ...

There are no blood or biologic tests for autism; it is diagnosed by making judgments about a child's behavior. Research has ...

KENNEDY, in interview with Sean Hannity that aired on Fox News on March 11: “There are adverse events from the vaccine. It ...

Less than a quarter of adults and around 13% of children have gotten a COVID-19 vaccination this past season, CDC data shows, ...

The U.S. obesity rate is about 40%, according to a 2021-2023 survey of about 6,000 people. Nearly 1 in 10 of those surveyed reported severe obesity, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The U.S. has recorded the highest number of measles cases since 2019, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published Friday. There are now 712 confirmed measles cases ...

Officials in Milwaukee and Wisconsin's state health department had formally requested the CDC's help on March 26, after many of the city's schools were found to have "significant lead hazards ...

EpiAid is a CDC program providing a short-term loan of an officer from the public health agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS. These “disease detectives” are sent to state and ...

On April 4, CMS announced it would not include Medicare Part D coverage of obesity drugs in its rule changes for 2026. Medical societies plan to advocate for passage of the Treat and Reduce ...

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) struggled to find records belonging to Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, while trying to ...

The statistics are staggering – according to the CDC, 19.7% of young people aged 2-19 suffer from obesity – but the solution, ...