On Dec. 10, 2025, Uganda entered into one of the most consequential health partnerships in its recent history. At the Ministry of Finance headquarters in Kampala, senior officials from Uganda and the ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been without a permanent director since the removal of Susan Monarez in August. Its recently installed acting director, Jay Bhattacharya, is also ...

Tick-borne diseases are spreading into new parts of the United States at a pace that has caught public health officials off guard. Babesiosis, a potentially fatal parasitic infection once confined to ...

New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food assistance programs and a revamped food pyramid reignite debates over how to handle ...

A parasitic worm capable of infecting the human brain has established local transmission in California for the first time, ...

South Carolina saw another robust month of vaccination against the measles as the nation’s worst outbreak slows. CDC help is ongoing and experts are coming.

Measles cases in South Carolina rose to 991 on Friday, state health data showed, ​an increase of one case since Tuesday as ...

The prevalence of obesity and severe obesity markedly increased among adults and children in the US from the 1970s and 1980s until now.

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory virus with no vaccine and no targeted antiviral treatment, is among the respiratory illnesses currently going around in the United States alongside ...

CDC deploys team South Carolina to analyze data and support response amid the state's largest measles outbreak since 2000.

There is no replacement for reliable data from federal government databases. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a ...