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Federal health officials say more than 21,000 people got whooping cough last year, many of them children and teens. That's the highest number ...

Nearly six in seven U.S. adults now wear seat belts, an increase in driver safety that health officials say has helped cut motor vehicle deaths ...

It's not just teens. More than 33 million adults have reported binge drinking in the past year, according to the CDC. Binge drinking is defined ...

Overall, more people in the Southeast met the criteria for depression, compared with other parts of the nation, the researchers ...

Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said ...

The CDC says a third wave of the H1N1 pandemic is less likely in the U.S. Attention now turns to the Southern Hemisphere, where flu season is just beginning.

Swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30, according to ...

Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu about four times the estimate ...

As many as 5.7 million Americans were infected with swine flu during the first few months of the pandemic, according to estimates from federal health officials....

The CDC had expected about 40 million doses by the end of the month, but at most 30 million will be shipped, an official says. Growing the virus in eggs is yielding less antigen than was hoped.