But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

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

The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in a decade. So far, there have been at least 29 million illnesses and 370,000 hospitalizations related to the flu -- the most since the 2015-2016 ...

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

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

America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

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

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

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.

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

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