The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

Kansas lawmakers on Tuesday overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto of a measure that bans gender-affirming care for minors in ...

A panel of experts that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as ...

All age groups in the United States are experiencing a "high severity" of influenza cases among all age groups for the first ...

This flu season has reached unprecedented intensity, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program ...

Smoking more than doubles the risk of unexplained strokes among younger adults, a new study warns. And heavy smoking is even ...

Nationally, the test positivity rate for the week ending on February 8, was 4.8 percent, according to the CDC's most recent update on its COVID Data Tracker.

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.