Sarah Boden

Five people have died from measles-associated causes in the United States this year. This fatality rate suggests there may have been 5,000 to 15,000

There's a lot of gross stuff that you might get from your cat. But Giardia probably isn't one of them.

Less than half of people at high risk for flu complications took a popular antiviral medication when they sought outpatient care, according to a study published recently in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Two African countries saw major declines in HIV/AIDs prevention services after the United States abruptly froze foreign aid, according to an analysis published this month in The Lancet.

A single dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is now deemed the most efficient immunization strategy for cervical cancer prevention, according

News brief The pertussis vaccine works really well, according to a new study comparing kids in Alaska who had gotten three or more doses of the vaccine with children who were unvaccinated, or undervaccinated.

Kids born with certain congenital infections are approximately three times more likely to be diagnosed as having autism, according to a study out of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. These children were also more likely to have an intellectual disability compared to those born without an infection, with the risk of severe to profound intellectual disability being up to 30 times higher than the general population.

Laura Esch was in disbelief. Her local paper was reporting that Pennsylvania had its first two measles-related deaths in 35 years. Both were infants.

News brief Pregnant people had more than twice the odds of receiving the flu vaccine than women who had not yet become pregnant, according to a study published last week in the American Journal of Public Health.

News brief Topics Community pharmacies may be key to preventing people exposed to the rabies virus from developing the fatal neurologic disease.