Since 2016, the Virginia Department of Health has confirmed 17 cases in the commonwealth, according to the study published in ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a nematode, is spreading through Washington County and Maryland, threatening beech tree populations. Beech trees play a vital role in forest ecosystems, contributing ...

In April, the CDC’s influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended expanding RSV vaccination to ...

(AP) - Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high.

West Virginia has one of the highest kindergarten vaccination rates in the country. Although national MMR and DTaP coverage fell below 93% during the 2023-2024 school year, West Virginia reported ...

New data raises the question of whether inflammation is directly linked to aging at all, or if it’s linked to a person’s ...

Peer support groups for people with chronic pain are cropping up across Canada, as advocates work to break down the stigma ...

The problem has only worsened since Macy’s 2012 series. That year, 572 people in Virginia had died from an opioid overdose, and of those deaths, heroin was the factor in 135, according to the ...

A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...