Calaveras Public Health Officer, Dr. Dean Kelaita, Tuesday announced that Public Health Services is investigating a child diagnosed with measles traveling through Calaveras County to ensure no local residents...

Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) units around the country are in the forefront of creating projects that address public health needs in their communities.  The National Association of County and City Health...

The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) today announced the on-going investigation of a hepatitis C outbreak associated with a health care worker who was employed at two northern Utah hospitals has identified...

Organ transplants between HIV-positive (HIV+) donors and HIV+ recipients involve special ethical concerns, in addition to those encountered in all transplants, say experts from Johns Hopkins, less than...

April 1st marks federally sanctioned Donate Life Month. Throughout the month, LifeLink of Florida honors the spirit of those individuals who make transplants possible—organ, tissue and eye donors. We...

The Mayday Project Lyme patient advocacy group will host a forum on the scientific and policy challenges posed by the rapidly growing epidemic of Lyme disease and associated tick-borne illnesses. The forum...

Over the weekend we reported that the Philippines, one of four countries to approve the Sanofi Pasteur  dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, and the first in Asia, were to commence the first dengue vaccine campaign...

The parasite responsible for a form of malaria now spreading from macaques to humans in South Asia could evolve to infect humans more efficiently, a step towards enhanced transmission between humans, according...

The Parkinson’s Disease Foundation® (PDF®) is calling upon communities around the US to join the team working to #EndParkinsons during April’s Parkinson’s Awareness Month. PDF urges...

They are young and mostly female: with more than 3.2 million reported cases between 2005 and 2014, chlamydia remains the most commonly reported sexually transmitted infection (STI) across Europe. As chlamydia...