Chronic disease prevention The latest budget request would eliminate the CDC's Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, for which $1.4 billion was appropriated in FY 2024.

News Health Florida disease-tracking chart returns: Measles, mpox, hepatitis surveillance now available A sign is seen outside a clinic in Brownfield, Texas.

Whipple’s disease is caused by Tropheryma whipplei, a bacterium that can live harmlessly in healthy individuals. Joint pain can appear years before digestive symptoms like weight loss and diarrhea.

STAT reviewed dozens of studies, interviewed chronic disease experts, and landed on three focus areas for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to boost health.

5 Tips for Early Alzheimer’s Disease Detection, According to Brain Health Advocates Their mothers had the disease—this is what they want you to know.

A report on the chronic disease epidemic is due soon. Use our interactive dataset of nine issues to see how your priorities match the MAHA commission's.

A new treatment for Lyme disease is important because the current gold standard treatment, doxycycline, fails in 10 to 20 percent of cases and can have harsh side effects on the gut microbiome.

Nicknamed the CDC's "disease detectives," officers are often dispatched around the country to support the agency's response to investigating outbreaks and other health emergencies, or assigned to ...

Eating about a dozen servings of ultraprocessed food each day could more than double your risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study. A single serving in the study was 8 ...

2 dead from rare mad cow-like brain disease in Oregon, county health officials say There are about 500 new cases of the disease in humans per year in the US, according to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

The prolific country artist has battled Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease for over a decade. Here's what to know about the inherited, genetic condition.

By 2050, there will be an estimated 25.2 million people living with Parkinson’s disease worldwide, a 112 percent increase from 2021, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ.