The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now is recommending that everybody older than 6...

Diabetes quickly has grown into one of the top disease epidemics in the United States,...

In the aftermath of the H1N1 flu pandemic that dominated airwaves during last year’s cough-cold-flu...

Preliminary findings from ongoing research on how consumers make healthcare choices indicated that if a...

A new survey released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National...

Kimberly Clark is betting hygiene-conscious consumers are ready for single-use bathroom hand towels. The company...

Merix Pharmaceutical unveiled its new Fast-Results! genital herpes treatment March 1. The only over-the-counter treatment...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still is recommending people who have not yet...

By all accounts, it’s been a very busy first half of the season for cough-cold manufacturers, even though the 52-week comparable period is only showing a 1.9% lift in overall sales across food, drug and mass (minus Walmart) for the period ended Jan. 24, according to Information Resources Inc. data. For the 2009-2010 season, the weekly percentage of outpatient visits for influenza-like illness peaked at the end of October 2009 at 7.7%, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. That peak was higher than the three previous influenza seasons as reported by the U.S. Outpatient ILI Surveillance Network.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Arthritis Foundation in early February announced...

There still is widespread concern over the safety and efficacy of the new H1N1 influenza...

Images of “Sesame Street’s” Count tabulating H1N1 flu cases aside, this really emphasizes how serious...