Roseland Community Hospital will stop delivering babies on Oct. 31, adding to South Side maternity closures. Its OB clinic will stay open. LA County issued an extreme heat warning for Oct. 2 to 8, ...

The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health urges residents to take preventive measures to protect themselves ...

Whooping cough, a bacterial infection that can be especially dangerous for babies and young children, is on the rise. Already in 2025 the U.S. has recorded 8,485 cases. That's compared with 4,266 ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. Given the rise in cases, I wanted to ...

Final 2025 CDC data show a record-low U.S. fertility rate of 53.2 and a 7% drop in teen births. What the numbers mean for maternity care access. Ric Flair, 77, was hospitalized after a Tampa fall ...

A new study from Zhejiang Province finds that pertussis imposes a substantial economic burden on adults over sixty, with hospitalization rates of 40.5 percent and costs driven by delayed diagnosis, ...

When someone has whooping cough, the sound can be unmistakable: A deep, gasping "whoop" as they struggle to catch their breath between fits of coughing. Now, this once-rare illness, also known as ...

Published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the study found that ​unvaccinated children had ...

A five-year surveillance study in Jigawa State, Nigeria, documents the re-emergence of pertussis with a 7.3 percent ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a vaccination-preventable illness that has been on the rise in the United States. Following a several-year lull during the pandemic, cases of whooping cough ...

Whooping cough cases are on the rise, with Kentucky reporting its third infant death since the start of the year. "KDPH confirmed none of the infants who died of pertussis in Kentucky over the past 12 ...

The odds of a lab-confirmed whooping cough case were about 26 times higher in unvaccinated children than in those who were ...