The bacteria can infect a person with an open wound, such as a cut, and can cause the skin and soft tissue around the wound to quickly break down.

Officials said they want to hear from people who have done anything from surfing to shopping, fishing or walking near South ...

Just days after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of South Bay neighborhoods ended, a new assessment of ...

Four agricultural workers in Washington have preliminarily tested positive for bird flu after working around an infected ...

The CDC approved a new ICD-10 code, z51A, for post hospital sepsis care in July. While it is now in effect, federal agencies have not released formal guidance on how to use the code, or whether ...

Young adults are increasingly eschewing alcohol and cigarettes in favor of cannabis. According to the most recent data from the annual Monitoring the Future survey, weed has never been this popular.

However, the study found use of nicotine pouches, a more discrete tobacco product, are increasing, and they face less ...

A report from the CDC calls attention to telehealth's role in treatment and how ADHD has shifted from a childhood-only ...

A multi-state study, published in The Lancet, is one of the first real world data analyses of the effectiveness of the RSV -- ...

"The 10 ugliest A-list movie stars" has a very different group of people than the "10 ugliest actors working in Hollywood." ...

We’ve racked up decades of evidence demonstrating how smoking and alcohol hurt our health, yet the data on cannabis and ...