Nearly 50,000 Americans took their own lives in 2022, the highest number on record, provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday showed, as the suicide ...

The Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Cancer Registry released a new report Wednesday morning providing an ...

The CDC now recommends Americans stay "up to date" with their COVID-19 shots rather than be "fully vaccinated." The CDC updated the wording of its recommendation on Wednesday. Here's what it means to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that almost 1 out of 4 people in the U.S. still hadn’t been exposed to COVID-19 by the end of 2022 after nearly three years of the ...

Lynchburg fire crews from Station 1 posted to Facebook and said there was a vehicle fire in the 800 block of Victoria Avenue. City of Salem police congratulates sergeant on his retirement The City of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention upended the childhood vaccine schedule Monday, reducing the number of recommended shots for kids. Effective immediately, the ...

The number of U.S. suicide deaths reached an all-time high in 2022, according to provisional data released Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). An estimated 49,449 ...

This year saw the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issue notices on 11 multi-state foodborne illness outbreaks, ranging from ground beef to strawberries. The Food and Drug Administration’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC released a draft of its updated guidelines for prescribing opioids, which emphasize patient-centered ...

Vanquishing disease is in the DNA of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that in its first decade of existence oversaw the eradication of smallpox, the elimination of ...