The risk of a combined MMRV vaccine for kids was small, but it landed disproportionately on families with the fewest choices.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an advisory Oct. 29 on three unrelated cases of clade I mpox recently identified in California.
The U.S. witnessed a remarkable 27% drop in drug overdose fatalities in 2024, reaching the lowest levels since 2019, with approximately 80,391 deaths. This decline is largely attributed to increased ...
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After Friday's deadly shooting outside the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, some public health officials called out Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at an all-hands meeting for his years of ...