The FDA, CDC and state and local officials are investigating an outbreak of listeriosis potentially linked to commercially-produced, prepackaged caramel apples.  Investigators are working to identify...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir tablets co-packaged with dasabuvir tablets) to treat patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)...

GSK announced Thursday that a pivotal phase III study to assess the efficacy of HZ/su, an investigational vaccine for the prevention of shingles, has met its primary endpoint. Analysis of the primary...

While some countries in southeast Asia have seen decreases in dengue fever activity in 2014, compared to last year (Philippines and Thailand), Malaysia has seen a sharp increase in dengue fever cases and...

While the Americas hit the 1 million locally acquired chikungunya case mark this past week, one year after the introduction of the virus in this region of the world one year ago, the islands of the South...

Between 20 November and 7 December 2014, the National IHR Focal Point for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) notified WHO of 11 additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)...

The anti-vaccine movement has hit a new low with the recent post on Facebook by the website, Vactruth.com. The organization posed the following on their Facebook page 10 days ago: “For the readers...

An outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in one small village in western Cambodia that has caused some panic has prompted an investigation by Cambodian and international health officials. The...

Orange County, CA health officials are reporting at least three cases of wound botulism during the past month in adults who injected “black tar heroin”. This are the first such cases reported...

After seeing an average of 28 imported chikungunya cases a year in the United States during the past eight years, primarily from travel to Asia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) puts...