The novel coronavirus has been declared a public health emergency in the United States, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a White House briefing on Friday.
The nation's top infectious disease doctor says a new study published Thursday night shows people can spread the Wuhan coronavirus before symptoms set in.
The two outbreaks in recent memory that give the most insight into these questions are the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, which spread globally.
As the coronavirus outbreak grows after killing hundreds in China, officials in several US states are cracking down on false information about the spread of the disease locally.
The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, after an emergency committee reconvened Thursday in Geneva.
The husband of an Illinois woman with Wuhan coronavirus is now infected with the illness, and is the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the virus in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday.
After years of splitting headaches, a Texas man's long-awaited diagnosis was something out of a Google symptoms search nightmare: The aches were caused by tapeworm larvae that had taken up space in his brain.
Believe it or not, people lie in order to maintain a good, honest reputation, even if hurts them to do so or causes them financial loss. At least, this is what a new study suggests, with evidence to prove it.
The nearly 200 Americans flown out of China on a chartered flight will stay at a military base in Southern California for at least three days so they can be monitored for coronavirus symptoms.
Life expectancy in the United States has gone up for the first time in four years and at the same time there has been a decline in people dying from drug overdoses and six of the 10 leading causes of death, according to two new government reports.
The number of women dying each year due to pregnancy or childbirth in the United States has not budged and some women remain more at risk of death than others, according to a new government report.
The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission along with four different companies have recalled more than 165,000 infant incline sleepers due to risk of suffocation.
A student at Arizona State University has started a petition to cancel classes after someone from the university was confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus.
Rising temperatures triggering extreme weather events around the world could result in an increase in heat-related illnesses and deaths, as well as the threat of new infectious diseases, according to experts.
The US Food and Drug Administration received its fourth consecutive failing grade on regulation of tobacco products in the American Lung Association's annual State of Tobacco Control report.
