HHS is tasked with communicating information to protect and improve the health and well-being of every American. It provides reminders about vaccinations and screenings; alerts about which food is ...

If you look around your community and workplace, you will notice that many Americans are quite large and do not look healthy.

California is hiring former senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials to help launch a public health ...

West Virginia wasn’t the only state with anti-tobacco initiatives that suffered after OSH closed down. New York state’s tobacco control bureau lost 13 staff members, slowing down the local programs ...

CDC has issued travel health notices for four countries contending with chikungunya outbreaks in recent months.

Dr. Daniel Jernigan was the director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. He had worked at ...

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate cardiovascular disease risk, and quitting entirely is the most effective strategy ...

(CNN) — Former US public health officials are sounding alarms about significant changes being made to the country’s vaccine policy under the Trump administration. Two public letters this week — one ...

Stanford University houses what may be the world's largest online collection of tobacco advertisements - over 62,000 scans spanning three centuries that tell a fascinating story of how the industry ...