Mustafa Fattah

As measles cases rise, some parents are giving their children the measles vaccine earlier. This bonus dose can be given to kids as young as 6 months.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said infectious diseases get more funding than chronic diseases. Government records suggest the opposite.

The CDC on Thursday urged labs nationwide to determine within 24 hours of admission whether people hospitalized with the flu have seasonal influenza or are infected with the bird flu that's behind an escalating outbreak in dairy cows and poultry.

Just one alcoholic drink a day is linked to a wide range of negative health effects, according to a federal report released Tuesday.

Winter viruses are raging right now, with flu leading the way at extremely high levels in the West, across the Midwest and deep into the Southeast, the CDC reported Monday.

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Norovirus, sometimes called the “winter vomiting disease” or “two-bucket disease” — because it causes both vomiting and diarrhea — is on the rise across the nation, even as seasonal flu is taking off and walking pneumonia rages on.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said Thursday it was not going ahead with a policy change that would limit reimbursements for anesthesia during surgery and medical procedures.

Dairy workers who’ve been exposed to bird flu should be tested even if they don’t have symptoms and should be offered Tamiflu to cut risk, the CDC said Thursday.

Alzheimer's disease researchers found that when they aimed a TMS device at the right spot in the brain, it could slow the progression of memory loss.

The CDC announced that an E. coli outbreak had been linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders in 10 states, causing at least 49 illnesses, 10 hospitalizations and one death.