Category: Public Health

Newly released data from the CDC shows more than 9 million U.S. adults who were taking at least one prescription medication in 2021 reported skipping doses, taking smaller doses or delaying refills because of cost. 

In the years leading up to the unexpected events of March 2020, U.S. life expectancy was declining, according to a June 1 report published in the American Journal of Public Health. 

Pediatric patients who are Black or speak a language other than English acquire central line-associated bloodstream infections at a rate higher than non-minority children, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics on May 30.

Childhood obesity rates in the U.S. are not where they need to be affecting nearly 20 percent of children and adolescents, according to the CDC, and weight-loss surgeries are increasing in children as a result. 

Infectious disease threats are growing and can have fatal consequences for patients and the public. 

AdventHealth’s Rapid Amoeba PCR test, which can confirm a brain-eating amoeba infection in as little as three hours, is a “game changer” and could mean the difference between life and death for patients, Jose Alexander, MD, clinical microbiologist and …

It took three years, two months and 19 days since the declaration of the pandemic, but COVID-19 hospitalizations have hit a record low in the U.S., CDC data shows.

The U.S. and Mexico have asked the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency of international concern over a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to two surgery clinics in a Mexico border city, a CDC official told CBS News on May 26.

Cases of human metapneumovirus sharply rose this spring, according to CDC data. Symptoms closely mimic other respiratory viruses like respiratory syncytial virus and the flu, but patients are not typically tested for its presence unless admitted to the…