Sarah Boden

President Donald Trump today pulled the nomination of wellness influencer Casey Means, MD, for US surgeon general, and has tapped a physician and Fox News contributor to take her place.

News brief A multistate outbreak of a foodborne bacterium that hospitalized three people is over, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.)

Doctors and scientists are still working to understand why COVID-19 can cause fatal damage to so many different organs.

Wastewater surveillance in New Mexico last year detected the measles virus at the county level at least five days before any clinically confirmed cases.

Prescriptions for ivermectin and another antiparasitic drug among cancer patients shot up after actor Mel Gibson discussed an unproven treatment on

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) annual health statistics report paints a sobering picture.

The number of people sickened by three multistate outbreaks of the Salmonella bacterium has rocketed to 184.

Roughly half of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) every year are among young adults and teens, and all states, to varying degrees, allow

News brief Topics The United States eliminated malaria in the 1950s , but that doesn't mean this parasitic disease is gone for good, warns a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.)

Antibiotic therapy is not an effective treatment for lower back pain with disc herniation, according to a study published this month in JAMA Network Open