WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Wednesday that the US fertility rate continued to fall in 2018, to an all-time low. The report confirms provisional figures ...

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Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Having a cold Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. The 2018-2019 flu season may not have been as severe as the one that came before it, but it set a record of its own, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — With Valentine’s Day just a few weeks away the CDC released data that might have Americans taking some additional romantic precautions. CDC data showed that 1 in 5 Americans had ...

More than 200 people, mostly young kids, developed the polio-like condition known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in 2018, federal health officials report. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has explored the digital ledger technology to secure data from electronic health records. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech ...

The 2017-2018 flu season has been a particularly nasty one, and according to officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. On Friday, ...

A CDC doctor said the agency was working hard to find the cause of the outbreaks Since 2014, there have been 396 confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis, which resembles polio and causes paralysis ...

Here are seven health issues the CDC addressed in 2018: 1. Opioid epidemic. Congress appropriated $476 million in fiscal year 2018 to support the CDC’s efforts to address the opioid epidemic. The ...

Confirmed suicides across the U.S. peaked in 2018 with more than 48,000 deaths, but declined in 2019 and 2020, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From ...