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Break out your antibacterial, flu season is here.
Residents in Broward County are encouraged to sign up for "Twitter Alert" to receive emergency information.
The number of U.S. births may be leveling off after a four year decline according to a new government report released Friday.
The cyclospora outbreak stretching across the nation has now sickened 24 people in Florida, according to state health officials.
A widespread stomach bug, which causes diarrhea and other flu-like symptoms, has Florida health officials looking for more answers about the state's 23 cases.
It's one of the most classic scenes in comedic movie history, but the "Baby Ruth pool scene" in Caddyshack may be closer to reality than swimmers may like.
For the second time in as many weeks, passengers returned from a vacation at sea with claims of hazardous health conditions aboard their cruise ship.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new warning to state and local health officials about a virus that is related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and appeared for the first time in September 2012.
An antibiotic-resistant family of bacteria continues to spread throughout the U.S. health care system and is now prompting warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this is the earliest flu outbreak in a decade.
Parents at Olson Middle School in Dania Beach are being told to keep an eye on their kids after someone at the school was diagnosed with Legionnaires' Disease.
Congress outlawed advertising tobacco products on television more than forty years ago.
A second deadly case in as many months of bacterial meningitis has been confirmed in South Florida, Miami-Dade County Health officials said Wednesday.
More than 4,000 people have been infected with the West Nile virus this year, making it the biggest outbreak of the disease since 2003, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Four confirmed meningitis cases in Florida are linked to a national outbreak according to Gov. Rick Scott.
More than 90 cases of a rare fungal meningitis have been reported in Florida and eight other states.
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) released the names of the Florida facilities where an ongoing meningitis outbreak can be traced to. Of the eight facilities, one is in South Florida.
It's no state secret that Americans have been in a battle with the bulge for several years. But a group campaigning against obesity said Tuesday Americans are losing the battle and things are going to get much worse.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could break new ground on concussions suffered by ex-NFL players and the degenerative effects they have on them.
A federal tax loophole is enabling teenagers to switch from cigarettes to lower priced, cigarette-style cigars. Statistics reveal it's getting the next generation hooked.
While teens smoking cigarettes continues to decline, that doesn't necessarily mean teens have quit smoking.
If you're one of the millions of baby boomers born between 1945 and 1965, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes you should get a blood test to see if you are infected with Hepatitis C.
If Americans believed their battle of the bulge was improving; new projections from Duke University researchers paint a dark picture in America's fight against obesity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the strain of cholera in Haiti is beginning to evolve as some develop a little immunity from the bacterium, according to the Washington Post.
Homicide is no longer one of the top 15 causes of death in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
