Data published Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States decreased in the early months of the COVID-19 ...

Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped nearly two years in 2020, from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77 years in 2020, according to the CDC’s finalized mortality report published Dec. 22. The decrease was largely ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Drug overdose deaths rapidly increased between 2019 and 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found, and minority groups were largely affected. There were 91,799 ...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied an “alarming increase” in drug-resistant infections that are spread in hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared in a new ...

As COVID-19 spread through the U.S. in 2020, the death rates for heart disease and diabetes saw significant increases, according to data from the CDC’s Mortality Dashboard. In 2019, the death rate for ...

At least 171 measles cases have been confirmed in the U.S. so far this year, according to newly updated data from the CDC.