Sickle cell disease treatment progress has improved over the years, but recent federal cuts threaten the health of those who suffer from the blood ailment.

Infectious disease physicians expressed alarm over how the Trump administration bypassed open and established processes for changing vaccine recommendations, and voiced particular concern over ...

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...

An AI tool, created by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke universities, could revolutionize how public health officials predict, track and manage outbreaks of infectious diseases including flu ...

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

The Ethical Minefield of Testing Infants for Incurable Diseases Screening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about.

Infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics are two other threats that are likely to occur multiple times over the next century, according to the Health Department.

The Society of Environmental Journalists conference convened a panel of experts who discussed the spread of infectious diseases amid climate change.

As global temperatures rise, the spread of infectious diseases is rapidly evolving in unexpected ways. That’s something that Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud thinks about a lot. A physician-scientist ...

A torrent of infectious diseases is erupting from melting ice. We shouldn’t freak out just yet As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We ...

The United States has de-emphasized infectious disease programming in favor of prioritizing chronic disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has notified the California Department of Public Health it is suspending grants it had provided to support the state's infectious-disease response ...