Groundhog Day Report: Flu's Worsening Shadow Blanketing U.S.
It looks like Groundhog Day for the nation's flu report, too: It's gotten worse, and there are weeks of suffering ahead.
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It looks like Groundhog Day for the nation's flu report, too: It's gotten worse, and there are weeks of suffering ahead.
Sick with the flu? You've got a lot of company. The flu blanketed the U.S. again last week for the third straight week.
Health officials say the flu is spreading across the nation, with a dozen states now reporting widespread flu cases just ahead of the holiday season.
The U.S. rate for gun deaths has increased for the second straight year, following 15 years of no real change, a government report shows.
Spurred by the chemical industry, President Donald Trump's administration is retreating from a congressionally mandated review of some of the most dangerous chemicals in public use.
A puzzling study of U.S. pregnancies found that women who had miscarriages between 2010 and 2012 were more likely to have had back-to-back annual flu shots.
A puzzling study of U.S. pregnancies found that women who had miscarriages between 2010 and 2012 were more likely to have had back-to-back annual flu shots that included protection against swine flu.
U.S. health officials say more people have contracted salmonella by eating papayas from a farm in southern Mexico.
A Richardson woman says she is recovering from a frightening experience with the West Nile virus.
The parents of 15-year-old Carmen Johnson, who tragically died from electric shock drowning while swimming near her family's Alabama lake house last April, are speaking out about the rarely reported phenomenon after it took the lives of two more local women this past weekend.
For the first time, doctors have tied infection with the Zika virus to possible new heart problems in adults. A report last June describes heart problems that have been seen from other viruses spread by mosquitoes
Fitbit, whose devices encourage people to walk 10,000 steps each day, now wants to put them to sleep as well. Now, Fitbit will offer deeper sleep tracking on some of its devices.
Brain trauma in domestic violence survivors has been overshadowed by concerns about injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan war vets, and by effects of repeated head blows in football players.
President Barack Obama made a statement Sunday on the 35th anniversary of the first documented case of AIDS in the United States.
Playground concussions are on the rise, according to a new government study, and monkey bars and swings are most often involved.
Dallas County public health officials say a 2-month-old child is the state's first flu fatality for the 2015-2016 flu season.
The 14 cases all involve men who visited areas with Zika outbreaks, and who may have infected their female sex partners, who had not traveled to those areas.
Brazil is signing an agreement with the University of Texas to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus.
The newly formed Dallas County Zika Task Force wrapped up its second scheduled meeting this morning. The group, headed by DCHHS Environmental Health, will meet weekly with officials in Dallas County municipalities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued some interim guidelines on how to prevent transmitting the Zika virus through sexual transmission.
Officials with the CDC have sent official confirmation to Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) that the first case of Zika virus in Dallas County in 2016 was acquired through sexual transmission.
The average age of first-time mothers is at an all-time high in the U.S — over 26.
A Houston television station is reporting that officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed a case of Zika virus in a traveler from Texas who recently returned from Latin America.
The CDC is warning Texans about a new mosquito threat called the Zika virus thats creeping toward the state
A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials.
