Officials in California are warning that infections with tuberculosis in the state have hit a 12-year high.

At 8,671 feet elevation, Lake City serves as the county seat of Hinsdale County, Colorado’s least populated county. The ...

Avian influenza can jump species from birds to humans, a fact that arouses concern for serious illness and broader human ...

Victorian bakers worked brutal 18- to 20-hour days in cramped, overheated bakehouses, often sleeping in the same flour-filled ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the ...

For many Americans, Memorial Day marks a fun-filled long weekend and the unofficial start of summer. However, Memorial Day was created for a much more solemn purpose: commemorating the U.S. military ...

The story of the origins of vaccines is an interesting piece of history, medically as well as socially. The word derives from ...