Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.

A new study found that smoking as few as two cigarettes a day can significantly increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular ...

Many think it's a dangerous ploy by the tobacco industry. But some say, with millions of deaths each year attributed to ...

On "The Final 5," former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden, author of the new book "The Formula for Better Health," urged viewers to seek medical advice from doctors amid controversy over Tylenol and ...

LOS ANGELES – Future of Health (FOH), an organization of more than 50 of the world’s most influential voices from health systems, government, industry, academia and technology, hosted its annual ...

Three cases of mpox clade I were recently detected in California, with all infected individuals needing to be hospitalized. Clade 1 mpox generally causes more severe illness and differs from the clade ...

Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, argues the public health agency has been weaponized into a political tool. Reading time 10 ...

The doctor who led Maine through the Covid-19 pandemic and later moved to a national public health position is running for governor. Nirav Shah announced Monday he will throw his name into an already ...

Dr. Tom Frieden has spent his career as a disease detective, New York City’s health commissioner during a tuberculosis outbreak and CDC director during the Ebola crisis. In his new book, “The Formula ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. Torie Bosch: Former acting CDC director Rich Besser is worried. When public health is working, no one notices. When it’s not working, people die. And ...

Days after hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees were laid off, former CDC officials are warning it has left the agency more unprepared to keep Americans healthy and safe.