The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) issued an annual warning with Christmas and the holiday season upon us about the serious risks of a holiday tradition of eating raw ground beef sandwiches. Better...

Profounda, Inc. announced Friday that it has received, the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM) with miltefosine. ...

An experimental Ebola vaccine was highly protective against the deadly virus in a major trial in Guinea, according to results published Thursday in The Lancet. The vaccine is the first to prevent infection...

Dozens of employees with the New Mexico Department of Health have been sickened with a type of food poisoning at their own holiday luncheon, according to a Santa Fe New Mexican report this week. Of the...

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)  is investigating two outbreaks of mumps in North Texas. State health officials are working with event organizers to notify people who attended one...

The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) announced this week an outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) in Eddy County. Twenty cases of whooping cough have been investigated or are currently being investigated...

British Columbia Interior Health officials have issued a health alert Friday after a clinical case of Hepatitis A has been identified in a food handler at the Dairy Queen establishment in Clearwater located...

In a follow-up to the mumps situation at the State University of New York at Geneseo, or SUNY Geneseo, student health officials report two additional cases, bringing the total confirmed case count to...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating nine confirmed measles cases in Los Angeles County (excluding Long Beach and Pasadena as any cases identified in those cities are reported...

In a follow-up to a report last week of dozens of cats in a Manhattan shelter infected with H7N2 avian influenza, New York City health officials report a confirmed human infection with H7N2 in a veterinarian...