Kennedy Jr. told reporters Wednesday morning that the rise in recorded autism rates is partially driven by environmental factors, not genetics. The appearance follows his recent pledge to identify the ...

About 1 in every 31 children was diagnosed with autism by age 8 in 2022, up from 1 in 36 in 2020, according to the CDC report ...

U.S. emergency room doctors treat a gunshot wound every half-hour, a new study has found. What's more, firearm injuries ...

To stop the spread of an infectious disease like measles, you don’t have to vaccinate everyone. But you do have to vaccinate many. Just how many? To let you discover for yourself, we simulated an ...

Despite record-high spending, mental health outcomes decline—experts say the fault lies with a flawed diagnostic system as ...

Zoonotic and other infectious diseases are emerging and reemerging rapidly in recent times owing to altered climatic conditions, changing lifestyles, and unhealthy living conditions. The WHO listed 20 ...

Four clustering patterns were detected: HH (high-high), HL (high-low ... In 2022, it moved 174.7 km back to Gonghe County, indicating epidemic fluctuations. In 2023, it stayed in Gonghe but shifted 69 ...

If diabetes was an epidemic a decade ago, it is obesity now,” she says ... like a restaurant meal or chocolate for accomplishing a task. This creates a life-long pattern of thinking that foods are a ...

The World Health Organization officially declared obesity a global epidemic in 1997 ... a sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep patterns, and high stress levels — can significantly increase her ...

With its measles outbreak spreading to two additional states, Texas is on track to becoming the cause of a national epidemic if it doesn’t start vaccinating more people, according to public ...

Unlike previous outbreaks, the 2022-2023 epidemic saw a significant number of cases in Europe and the Americas. During the 2022 epidemic, early public health responses in high-income countries ...