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Combined covid, influenza and RSV emergency room visits are the highest since February.

Authorities confirm the first sexual spread of mpox in Congo during a surge that has led to more deaths than last year’s global outbreak.

Pneumonia clusters related to mycoplasma have been detected abroad, but there’s no evidence Ohio is part of a global outbreak or that the U.S. is seeing a surge.

CDC director Mandy Cohen’s appearance before Congress came as clusters of pneumonia in Chinese children emerge as the latest public health issue enmeshed in geopolitical conflict.

The Drug Enforcement Administration may remove marijuana’s classification as a Schedule I drug. It has implications for research, sales and criminal prosecutions.

Concerns about the public health implications of marijuana legalization remain potent as the battle to overhaul drug laws moves to red states.

Dire scenarios await Gaza’s hospitals as they face dwindling basic resources and damage from airstrikes in the Israel-Gaza war.

Insurers are supposed to pay for the updated coronavirus vaccine after the federal government stopped buying them. But some consumers are being turned away

Americans can again order four free tests through covidtests.gov starting Sept. 25.

BA.2.86 is the most mutated version of coronavirus since omicron, raising fears about re-infection. But it’s unclear whether it’s transmissible enough to surge.