The latest CDC survey found 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. were obese. A map shows the states with the highest and lowest rates.

The overall rate of obesity in the United States ticked downward between August 2021 and August 2023, breaking a streak of ...

On Tuesday, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released its latest report analyzing data on the state of obesity ...

More than 4 in 10 U.S. adults have obesity, putting them at risk of chronic conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, ...

CDC researchers recently found that 60% of children and teens in American Samoa had been infected with dengue — a troubling ...

According to new numbers from a 2021 survey conducted through 2023, the obesity rate in the U.S. stands at 40%, a slight decrease from the 42% recorded in the previous four-year period.

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were ...

More than 100 million American adults have obesity and more than 20 million adults have severe obesity, U.S. figures show.

Another health care worker who was exposed to a Missouri patient who tested positive for bird flu developed respiratory symptoms.

Data published this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms a trend, already reported anecdotally by emergency department staff across the country, that deaths from ...

Learn how wastewater surveillance is now being used to detect foodborne pathogens like Salmonella, offering a new tool in ...

A factor that has changed over time is hospitalization due to severe COVID infections. On Aug. 1, the statewide seven-day ...