Jen Christensen

The percentage of adults who smoked cigarettes in the United States fell to a historic low last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. However, e-cigarettes are becoming even more popular.

As an emergency room nurse, Terry Foster has cared for people on their worst days. He loves his work, and as president of the Emergency Nurses Association, a group that represents about 50,000 nurses, he's met countless others who share a similar commitment to helping others. But he's concerned about the future of his profession.

If your parents or grandparents ask you how to post on Instagram or how to send a birthday message to a Facebook friend, a new study suggests you might want to help them -- not just to be nice but because getting them online may help their brain health, too.

If your parents or grandparents ask you how to post on Instagram or how to send a birthday message to a Facebook friend, a new study suggests you might want

The United States is facing what some experts are calling "a new era for bird flu."

In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, lawmakers were highly critical of the US Food and Drug Administration's handling of the infant formula shortage Thursday.

Marines who were stationed at Camp Lejeune had a 70% higher risk of Parkinson's disease than veterans who served at a post across the country, a new study found.

The US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, known as APHIS, said it is taking steps toward vaccinating endangered California condors against a highly infectious bird flu that has already led to the death of millions of birds in the United States.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s committee of independent experts on vaccines is meeting Thursday to decide if it should recommend that the United States offer a new vaccine to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection.

The US Food and Drug Administration proposed Tuesday to add to what you get with your prescription drugs.