Symptoms of influenza are sore throat, cough, congestion, headaches and body aches. Fever is also a common symptom, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said not everyone with the ...

RFK Jr., who's nominated to become the next health secretary, asked the federal government to revoke its authorization of all ...

Over 160,000 people this season have landed in the hospital from flu complications, CDC estimates. More than 6,600 have died.

Dear Doctors: I just got the new COVID-19 booster, and the nurse said hardly anyone is getting the updated shot this year. I’m not surprised because after years of headlines, COVID-19 is gone from the ...

In 2023, the 10 leading causes of death remained the same as in 2022. The top leading cause in 2023 was heart disease, ...

US President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of vaccine conspiracist Robert F Kennedy, Jr, as his new administration's Health and Human Services (HHS) cabinet secretary has alarmed many public health ...

Viral sicknesses have risen in early 2025 amid the ongoing “quad-demic” in the U.S., referring to three respiratory viruses and one gastrointestinal disease, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Fourteen states are reporting "high" respiratory virus activity: Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and ...

At the end of December, trends in respiratory illness reached the highest levels so far this season at both the national ...

At least two Michigan health systems have put temporary visitor restrictions in place to reduce spread of illness between ...

Despite a recent 19% decrease in emergency department visits, health officials anticipate that Alabama's flu activity will ...

Three students from Centreville High School in Clifton discovered a potentially harmful substance – DNA residues, or tiny ...