With the nationwide HPV vaccination programme for girls aged 14 years underway, what are the reasons behind this drive? Is it covered under the Universal Immunization Programme?

These findings, alongside the linked systematic review and meta-analysis of antiviral treatment efficacy, supported the 2024 WHO guidelines expansion of treatment criteria to include individuals with ...

It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

Have you ever promised yourself you would “get healthy someday,” only to realize that someday keeps moving further away? Preventative health habits work best when they become part of daily life rather ...

For over a hundred years, the specter of a schizophrenia diagnosis has frightened patients and their families. Yet it confers no useful meaning for treatment or prognosis.

Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.

Childbirth in the 1800s was extremely risky — although not as risky as in previous centuries — with maternal mortality rates often ranging between 1 in 100 to 1 in 200 births. The Centers for Disease ...