For months, public health experts have been monitoring a trend equal parts promising and perplexing: a steep decline in ...

Strength training may be all the rage, but it doesn't have as many benefits for the heart as walking and other cardio.

Data: CDC; Note: 2024 data is provisional and may be underreported; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Washington state may have begun to reverse its yearslong trend of rising drug overdose deaths, preliminary ...

New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System reveals a nearly 27% decline in predicted drug overdose deaths in 2024 compared to 2023. The ...

Americans live shorter and less healthy lives than people in other high-income countries.

Data: CDC; Note: 2024 may be underreported due to incomplete data; Chart: Axios Visuals Drug overdose deaths last year dropped to their lowest annual level since 2019, according to preliminary CDC ...

Americans spend about $3 billion a year on pollen-related medical costs, including for prescription medications.

Knowing if measles is spreading in your community has become more challenging. The Florida Department of Health surveillance ...

U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Mark R. Warner ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. was on a constant decline between 2014 and 2020 and has fluctuated since then, CDC reports.

More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of ...

The best way to avoid transmission remains two doses of a measles or MMR vaccine, according to the CDC, the World Health Organization, and the majority of infectious disease experts.