Health

Miami-Dade County has reported the most cases of dengue, a virus that spreads through the bite of an affected mosquito, in 2024 across the 50 U.S. states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

33 million Americans have food allergies, according to Food Allergy Research and Education. That’s about 1 in 10 adults and 1 in 13 children.

According to Food Allergy Research and Education, a national advocacy group, 32 million Americans have food allergies – about 5.6 million of them are children, which is a number that is growing.

‘Hopefully somebody else hears me, hears this story and decides to put together an emergency plan for their child’

Food labels must identify, using its common name, the food source of all major food allergens used to make the food in in the ingredient list or immediately after or next to the list, in a separate “contains statement”.

As of Friday, 320 cases had been reported across 16 states, compared to 285 cases confirmed by the CDC for all of last year, which was the highest total since 2019.

At 35, Katie Dutton is already a rectal cancer survivor, an ordeal that started with seemingly benign symptoms doctors initially dismissed.

President Donald Trump has promised to preserve Medicaid and other federal safety-net programs.

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of former Rep. Dave Weldon, their pick to be CDC director, according to a senior administration official.

There are fears that vaccinating could allow the virus to linger undetected in flocks and mutate in ways that could make it more of a threat to humans.

Think sugary cereals, frozen pizzas, chips, soda and ice cream tied to high rates of obesity and other disease.

Measles isn’t just a rash and a fever. The disease outbreak in West Texas that continues to grow has sent 29 people, most of them small children, to the hospital. Two people have died, including a 6-year-old child.  It’s not yet known how many people have gotten sick in the outbreak — there are at least 223 confirmed cases, but ...

A third state is now part of the growing measles outbreak in the U.S.