A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s, according to the state health department.

The Alzheimer's Accountability and Investment Act (Public Law 118-93), enacted on October 1, 2024, mandates that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) annually submit a budget estimate directly to the president, detailing the resources required to implement initiatives under the National Alzheimer's Project Act.

Typical household cleaners like hand sanitizer or wipes don't kill germs from norovirus. Here's what you can use instead.

One of the top egg producers in the U.S. confirmed that a farm tested positive for cases of bird flu over the weekend, the company said in a statement Tuesday.

A tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s, according to the […] The post Kansas Tuberculosis Outbreak Becomes Largest in U.

A potential Ebola outbreak has been reported in the DRC, at a time when the Trump administration has paused communication with the WHO.

Kennedy Jr., President Trump's pick for health secretary, has falsely linked vaccines to autism and argued people should have separate vaccination schedules based on their race.

Five years ago this week, the planet began to understand what can happen when the newest thing to go viral, was, of all things, a virus. It was Jan. 23, 2020 when the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan in Hubei province,

Kansas is experiencing record-high tuberculosis cases in two counties. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and a TB expert weigh in on the public risk.

The worst part about it: There is no specific medicine to treat norovirus. Those who get infected just have to let the illness play out. It typically lasts one to three days, according to the CDC. You can get norovirus if:

And yet Americans’ trust in vaccines and medical institutions has fallen sharply in the years since. What started as a medical emergency soon became a battleground in the country’s culture wars. And as the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions took hold,

You don’t need to have the vaccine to attend colleges in Kansas, but some do require you to get tested for tuberculosis before enrolling and going to classes on campus, like at the University of Kansas.