WELL, WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF ONE OF THE WORST FLU SEASONS IN OVER A DECADE, WITH DOCTOR VISITS FOR FLU SYMPTOMS NOW AT A 15 YEAR HIGH. NATIONWIDE, MORE THAN 50,000 PEOPLE WERE ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL ...

Days before Kansas City’s temporary winter homeless shelters were set to close for the season, city officials announced a limited 60-day extension plan. It will keep about a quarter of the beds the ...

Federal health officials are trying to tell if this year's harsh flu season led to an increase in a rare but dangerous brain ...

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce ...

Metro health departments say the outbreak has not reached the Kansas City area but say there are ways to stay safe just in ...

The U.S. registered its first death from measles since 2015 this week, as a child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas.

The CDC highlights a rise in respiratory illnesses and flu cases. Sleep expert Michelle Drerup advises on sleep hygiene to ...

President Donald Trump and members of his second administration are continuing their effort to swiftly remodel the federal ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month ...

A new coronavirus lineage discovered in bats by Wuhan scientists can infect human cells but is not a current public health threat, experts say ...

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa Whitfield confirmed a person who was hospitalized with ...