The nation’s infant mortality rate dropped last year after two years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau. Some experts ...

Once a week, Matt Rumley, 40, finds time between his two jobs to make the 50-mile round trip from his home in West Roxbury to ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios First-time U.S. mothers were an average of 27.5 years old in 2023, per CDC data. Why it matters: That's up from 21.4 in 1970 — a notable shift over the decades, reflecting major ...

It’s not just measles making a fierce comeback in 2025. Another disease that’s especially dangerous to young children, known as pertussis or whooping cough, is spreading nearly twice ...

The wildfire in New Jersey had ravaged more than 15,000 acres and was just 50% contained as of Thursday night.

As former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), we have spent our careers protecting ...

according to a notification state officials received from the CDC on April 3. Massachusetts set aside funding for the testing program well before Trump’s election in part, Goldstein said ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey called for Americans to continue the fight for liberty as she spoke at a remembrance of the Battle of Concord and the start of the Revolutionary War Saturday ...

A crash involving a Massachusetts State Police motorcycle is under investigation in Lexington. The crash happened at about 6:35 a.m. on Cranberry Hill off Massachusetts Avenue. "Preliminary ...

And after seeing what we did, I'm glad we did," Dylan Neu, who had led the CDC's ventilation assessments in Texas, told CBS News. Neu is a biomedical engineer for the CDC's National Institute of ...

He previously wrote and produced news and sports at WABC-TV in New York. A woman in western Massachusetts won a $100,000 lottery prize after finding her ticket in a junk drawer just before it was ...

In 2024, Massachusetts lawmakers used the PRAMS data ... more and where resources should be directed,” said a former CDC employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.