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

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.

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

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.

Eastern equine encephalitis, often referred to as EEE or Triple E, is a rare, but serious disease, largely found in North America and spread through the bite of an infected mosquito, the Centers for ...

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.

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

Teens are most at risk for taking dangerous counterfeit pills made to resemble Xanax, Adderall, or OxyContin. The most common ...

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 ...

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

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