Pet vaccines don’t just protect our beloved animals—some of them protect us, too. Vaccines for pets have a lot in common with vaccines for humans, from how they’re developed and tested to the purpose ...

A pipe collapse outside Washington, D.C., has spilled nearly 300 million gallons of sewage into the Potomac River. In its wake, researchers have discovered high levels of harmful pathogens like E.

among girls by age 15 years was 21% in 2024, up from 16% in 2020. In the WHO African Region, which carries a disproportionate cervical cancer burden, first-dose coverage among girls by age 15 ...

People with medical debt are significantly more likely to experience subsequent housing instability such as difficulty with rent or mortgage payments, eviction, or foreclosure, according to a study ...

An analysis of internal Food and Drug Administration documents by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that the agency generally followed cautious and ...

The U.S. fertility rate—the number of children born to women of childbearing age—reached a record low in 2024. The average American woman between ages 15 and 44 gave birth to less than two children, ...

As of mid-December, flu, COVID, and RSV activity are relatively low throughout most of the U.S., but rates of all three are climbing just as many Americans travel and gather for the holidays. And, for ...

The United States surpassed a milestone in reported measles cases, with 2025 now having the most cases since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 and the most cases in more than ...

Two people are standing in line at the grocery store. One has a cart full of instant ramen, hotdogs, ice cream, and soda, and the other has a cart full of whole grain bread, breakfast cereal, creamy ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in 2014 to control rising health care costs, providing insurance coverage to millions of Americans—but key subsidies of the law are set to expire at the ...

What if a vaccine could reduce your chances of heart attack, stroke, or dementia, and even save you money? It turns out: those vaccines already exist. Researchers are learning that vaccines against ...

The U.S. has reported more than 1,600 cases of measles to date in 2025, the largest number of cases since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Effectively responding to a measles outbreak ...