I don’t smoke and I don’t vape, yet I like the idea that I retain that freedom. Vaping is the use of e-cigarettes that mirror smoking tobacco ...

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said the person who died from a flu-related illness is from the Charlotte metro area ages 65 and older. The person died ...

Obesity, family history, and inflammatory bowel disease all raise the risk of colorectal cancer in adults under 50.

October is Sudden Cardiac Awareness Month.   Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a condition in which the heart suddenly and ...

Buncombe County acknowledges substantial overcount in earlier numbers as NC chief medical examiner’s office completes ...

Leaders across the food animal system met with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The National Institute for Animal Agriculture convened animal agriculture leaders in ...

Black New Yorkers ages 55 to 84 and residents of the Bronx were among the groups shouldering the highest rate of overdose ...

The CDC’s Timothy M. Uyeki, M.D, however, cautioned that if the virus changes, and especially if it begins to infect pigs, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reminding clinicians and other health care workers to take necessary steps ...

The disease is now known to be carried by both Lone Star ticks, common to Southern Illinois, and blacklegged or deer ticks, ...

Although most research and attention focus on adults, children and adolescents suffer from chronic pain and mental health disorders in numbers as high as adults.

Lifestyle interventions, such as physical activity, can be as effective as medicine in promoting whole-body health and may be ...