In 2021, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its colon cancer screening recommendation age from 50 to 45 ...

Ticks live in North Carolina year-round, and can transmit serious illnesses such as Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, Rocky ...

Summer is always a more visible time for tick bites because humans are outside more, but experts caution that “every season ...

Measles cases in the U.S. have risen to the worst in 33 years, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval for Moderna's MRNA.O COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, in children aged 6 months through 11 years who are at an increased risk of the disease, ...

More than 30 percent of American teenagers were considered prediabetic in 2023, according to recent data from the Centers for ...

A new federal estimate shows a rise in prediabetes among American adolescents, a finding that is spurring concerns about the health of U.S. children.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled a meeting of government health panel that helps guide what preventive ...

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in children ...

Opioids accounted for 86 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the state with the highest overdose mortality rate.