The CDC reports that about 7 human cases of pneumonic plague are reported each year nationwide, but this case is the first known US death since 2007.

President Donald Trump was swept into office promising to Make America Healthy Again. Now his controversial Health Secretary, ...

A person died from pneumonic plague in Arizona last week, the first death from the disease in this region in nearly two ...

Robert Malone, a member of RFK Jr.'s new CDC vaccine advisory committee, is spreading myths about Amish immunity to infectious disease and autism.

An Arizona patient from Coconino County has died from pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed Friday, July 11.

Our science and health infrastructure lies in tatters. Once-dead viruses are roaring back to life. Many people will die. In ...

The nonprofit Accountability Journalism Institute (AJI) announces new members of its Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board. Anthropologist and science writer Wendy Orent will be joining the ...

In the Town of Salem's non-mandatory boil water advisory, officials said high temperatures and increased rain led to manganese leeching out into the lake, causing discoloration. A notice posted at the ...

The United States government has subjected immigrants detained in three Florida facilities to abusive, degrading, and in some ...

Temperatures in Boston for the week peaked with a heat index in the triple digits on Wednesday – but residents may not see a real cool off until Friday.

It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.

“Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were both horny rich guys with an eye for young models,” Michael Gross, author of the 1995 book “Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women,” told USA TODAY. Now, ...