Another round of hot weather is in store with high temps expected to challenge daily record highs starting mid-week. An ...

The US government plans to make more at-home Covid-19 tests available for free this month as the country heads into respiratory virus season with high levels of the co ...

It’s too soon to know whether new treatments for obesity, including blockbuster weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound ...

The CDC's Isolation Precautions Guidance — which informs infection control and prevention practices within hospitals and nursing homes worldwide — was last updated in 2007. The agency's Healthcare ...

A person has died in New York state from eastern equine encephalitis. The death was reported Monday in Ulster County.

Measures of obesity and severe obesity are determined according to body mass index, a calculation based on height and weight.

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 ...

That's down from the 33.5% rate reported from 2022 and the 31.3% rate from 2021, per the Nevada Department of Health and ...

States that once had the lowest rates have seen infections soar as the distribution of COVID-19 cases changes across the ...

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.