LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Infections blamed on a fungus labeled as a “superbug” by U.S. health officials have grown by 33% in Nevada over the past year, according to a state report. The fungus is spread by ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It is the first full day the CDC’s new vaccine schedule is in effect. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reduced the number of vaccines routinely recommended for ...

Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are a common, albeit irritating, infection. A News 9 viewer says they want to know how to prevent recurrent UTIs, and Dr. Lacy Anderson has the answer. Anderson says ...

Americans have been warned to exercise caution when traveling as certain regions contend with outbreaks of an untreatable mosquito-borne viral disease called chikungunya. Similar advisories were ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...

The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B, which is one of public health's major success stories. When you purchase ...

Months after the CDC eliminated its infection control committee, two epidemiology organizations have created the Healthcare Infection Prevention Advisory Group. The two organizations, the Association ...

Norovirus cases have risen in the United States in recent weeks, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 14% of tests for the illness came back positive during ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

Difficult-to-treat infections caused by dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria are on an alarming upward climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned in a recent health alert. Known ...