A federal vaccine advisory committee voted to delay a vote on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has replaced the head of his controversial vaccine advisory committee.

The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and today marks Wear Purple Day, a day dedicated to showing support and spreading awareness about domestic violence.

Virginia officials urge backyard bird owners to strengthen biosecurity as wild waterfowl migration resumes this fall, amid concerns over Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted recommendations by a new group of vaccine advisers, and has stopped recommending COVID-19 shots for anyone.

New government data shows another decline in sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults, but also a continued rise in syphilis in newborns.

Government scientists say infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” have been increasing dramatically.

Health Secretary Robert F.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

It’s a day of remembrance, but for some who lived through 9/11, the physical reminders are present every day.

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights.

An internal CDC email reveals that the Georgia man who shot at CDC buildings on Aug. 8 likely tried to enter the campus two days earlier.

At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices.

States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters.

In a story published Aug. 1, 2025, about medical associations being kicked out of government vaccine advisory workgroups, The Associated Press erroneously reported on the status of one of the professional groups.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high.

The Trump administration appears to be expanding RSV vaccinations to some adults starting at age 50 instead of 60.

The Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Four people have been sickened in two states by salmonella poisoning linked to pistachio cream, a nut butter spread.

More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated.

The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Mexico, Chile and Uruguay have halted poultry imports from Brazil after the country confirmed its first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm.

Brazil, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, has confirmed the country’s first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm.

U.S. health officials say a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat sandwiches and snacks has sickened at least 10 people.

Federal officials say at least 10 people in the U.S. have been sickened in a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat food products, and a producer is voluntarily recalling several items.

The nation’s infant mortality rate is falling.

Health officials say at least seven people in six states have been affected in a new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry.

Three new health reports detail growing concern about an animal sedative that’s showing up in the nation's illegal drug supply.

New U.S. government data shows that more U.S. women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing two years of decline.

Health Secretary Robert F.

Health secretary Robert F.

A key vaccine advisory committee is meeting for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

As cannabis becomes the third most commonly used substance in the United States, following nicotine and alcohol, concerns about its impact on driving safety are rising.

A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official is telling staff to start planning for the agency’s splintering.

A federal judge in Rhode Island says she'll temporarily block the Trump administration from cutting billions in federal public health dollars.

Health secretary Robert F.

Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for local public health departments and other health organizations throughout the nation.

Five high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leaving.

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

The Virginia Department of Health is investigating a second potential measles exposure in Northern Virginia.

The nation’s top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.

Heart disease is the number one cause of death for men and women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Federal health agencies have restored several webpages and datasets, following a judge’s order to bring back public access to information that had been removed to comply with a presidential executive order.

Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year.

Researchers across the country are in “a mad scramble” to sort out what public data the Trump administration has deleted from government websites.

The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported.

Health officials have confirmed the first case of severe illness in the U.S. caused by bird flu.

A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first to adopt a ban meant to eliminate the use of tobacco products over time.

The outgoing head of the nation’s top public health agency is urging the next administration to maintain its focus and funding to keep Americans safe from emerging health threats.

Health officials are confirming bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor.

U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year.

A Minnesota resident who came into contact with a bat in July died of rabies.

A scientific panel is calling for a public health approach to marijuana that’s a big departure from “Just Say No.” The report was released Thursday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a “one-off,” stand-alone illness.

September marks Suicide Prevention Month, highlighting the urgent need for awareness and resources as over 49,000 Americans died by suicide in 2022, with millions more contemplating it.

A deadly food poisoning outbreak has led to the recall of more than 7 million pounds of popular Boar’s Head deli meats made at a plant in Virginia.

The U.S. will pay for flu shots for farmworkers to try to prevent bird flu from getting worse.

U.S. health officials have announced a recall of some Boar's Head liverwurst and other deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak.

At least two people have died and more than two dozen were hospitalized in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning linked to meat sliced at grocery store deli counters.

President Joe Biden did not wear a face mask in public a couple of times after the White House announced he had tested positive for COVID-19.

Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of the plague.

With temperatures rising across the country and school out for the summer, many families will visit the beach, lake or local swimming pool.

Researchers say doctors are prescribing antibiotics to most kids and teens who have pink eye, despite guidelines that discourage their use.

U.S. health officials are warning doctors to be alert for dengue cases as the tropical disease breaks international records.

If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold.

Ophelia explored prescription opioid dispense rates in 2021 and how Virginia compared using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data.

U.S. health officials now recommend that some people consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases.

Reports of a rare nervous system disorder are “more common than expected” in older U.S. adults who got the new RSV vaccines.

At least a dozen people in California and Washington have been sickened with E.

Federal health officials say three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles.

The U.S. flu season appears to be over.

U.S. poultry producers will have to reduce salmonella bacteria in certain chicken products to very low levels to prevent food poisoning.

U.S. health and weather officials are unveiling a new color-coded system to warn Americans about heat danger, and it will set magenta as the most dangerous level.

With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group is now recommending that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection.

Federal health officials say that new U.S. hepatitis C infections dropped slightly in 2022.

U.S. health officials are warning of an increase in illnesses caused by a bacteria that can cause meningitis and possible death.

The U.S. saw the most tuberculosis illnesses in a decade in 2023.

The nation’s top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses.

U.S. health officials say Americans with COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days.

Cases of norovirus, a highly contagious stomach bug, are climbing in the Northeastern U.S. Nationwide, about 12% of most recent norovirus tests sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were positive.

U.S. health officials say consumers should not eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source.

U.S. health officials say at least seven states are seeing high levels of the flu and that cases are rising in other parts of the country.

Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

Just one new case of Legionnaires’ disease has been reported in southeast Poland in an area close to the Ukraine border, an indication the spread of the disease has been curbed following chlorine disinfection of the water system.

Poland's health authorities say the death toll from Legionnaires' disease has risen to 16 with another 140 people infected in the southeast region close to the border with Ukraine.

Health officials are investigating an outbreak of E.

Poland's internal security officers are searching for the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which has killed seven people and infected more than 100 in a strategic city near the border with Ukraine.

About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever.

In a story published July 27, 2023, The Associated Press reported that the mortality rate for patients who contracted Candida auris was 30% to 60%.

The Commonwealth is seeing the highest number of syphilis cases reported in more than three decades, according to the Virginia Dept. of Health.

Americans 60 and older can get a new RSV vaccine but should discuss it with their doctor first.