New federal lawsuits filed last week against a farm in California allege that the federal government kept the public in the dark about an E. coli outbreak from Romaine lettuce.

Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings — colonoscopies, mammograms and lung scans — for several months in ...

Medical expert Dr. John Schieffelin calls measles the most contagious known virus for which there is a proven vaccine. He ...

In 1957, for every 1,000 women, of child bearing age, 123 gave birth, but since then, the birth rate has steadily declined, ...