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Previously, pig kidneys have been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors.
U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022, the CDC says, a 4% increase from the year before.
People can leave isolation now if symptoms are mild and improving and fever has been gone for just one day
People who got sick after being at Camp Lejeune have accused the Marine Corps of failing to protect the health of its personnel and criticized the...
Some unexpected good news: The rate of new gonorrhea cases has fallen for the first time in a decade.
Of the winter viruses, flu seems to be increasing most dramatically, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Flu and COVID-19 infections have been increasing for weeks, with high levels of flu-like illness reported in 31 states just before Christmas.
“Folks are traveling a lot more this season. They want to see their families,” said the CDC's Dr. Manisha Patel. Vaccinations are down, too.
"We were doing well and now we see this upward trend," one of the study's authors said. "We are dismayed."
Even with the large increase, U.S. life expectancy is only back to 77 years, 6 months — about what it was two decades ago.
Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging...
Use of any tobacco product— including cigarettes and cigars — also fell among high schoolers, according to the CDC survey of over 22,000 students.
RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cause of cold-like symptoms that can be dangerous for young children.
With infection rates rising, “we didn’t feel like we could wait,” said Dr. Stephanie Cohen, who oversees the department’s STD prevention work.