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Dr. Nicole Saphier says the “right thing” for the United States to do amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak is to shut down all travel to and from China.

The CDC warns that Americans should not go to China but the U.S. is still allowing passengers to arrive from China.

A physicians group that educates about potential U.S. disasters says the novel coronavirus outbreak could become a pandemic.

The CDC says it is considering expanding screening for travel to the U.S. New York officials say infection is inevitable

A Chinese health official reports the Wuhan novel coronavirus could be contagious for up to two weeks before a patient becomes symptomatic. This means people who are not yet showing symptoms of coronavirus-related illness could be spreading the virus to other contacts.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials implemented “enhanced health screening” for travelers arriving at key U.S. airports from Wuhan, China. The action by CBP officials follows the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the United States on Tuesday.

The flu season is far from over, yet a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states this season’s vaccine for the flu strain primarily affecting children is only a 58 percent match.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning consumers of an E. coli outbreak linked to salad sold in three states and Canada.

The United States’ birth rate has continued to decline for the fourth consecutive year, newly released federal data reveals.

A mother in Malden, Massachusetts, recently received the sweetest gift she could ever have imagined from her disabled son.

The CDC states the number of U.S. abortions, the abortion rate, and the abortion ratio have all dropped to their lowest points on record.

The number of adult smokers in the United States has hit an all-time low of 13.7 percent in 2018, according to the CDC.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled her new bill to rein in government agency public relations and advertising spending on mascots, koozies, and fidget spinners on Breitbart News Daily.

The pro-life advocacy group Live Action has produced a startling new info-graphic denouncing the “Black genocide” of abortion currently underway in the United States.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds, after a period of stability between 2000 and 2007, the suicide rate among children and adolescents aged 10-24 increased 56 percent between 2007 and 2017.

Officials in Nevada are working to keep wild animals with the highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of their state. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning in a report released this month that deer can transmit certain strains of tuberculosis to hunters.

Public health officials are urging people to refrain from holding events outside after dusk after three people in Michigan died from a mosquito-borne illness.

As Democrats focus on banning and, in some cases, confiscating AR-15-style rifles under the guise of making citizens safe, now is a good time to shine a light on the 18 daily causes of death for Americans.  

Beijing on Monday denied U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl killing thousands of Americans each year.

Mexico has only one gun store and stringent gun controls, neither of which prevented the murders of 3,080 in that country in June alone.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths finally stopped climbing last year. And they apparently fell a little — the first such decline in nearly three decades.

Drugmakers and distributors dispensed 76 billion pills to commercial pharmacies over the past seven years, according to an analysis of federal data released Wednesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a warning after 60 people became sick with salmonella linked to papayas.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that an average of 4,500 people are detained at the United States border with Mexico each day, and according to a Wednesday report from county health officials, many of them are bringing diseases with them.

The U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) has officially removed the term “transgender” from the classification of mental disorders.

Authorities have issued a response to reports of serious infection at the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley station in Reseda.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call on Monday that the recent measles outbreak in the United States was “completely avoidable.”

Iowa Republican lawmakers passed a health and human services budget bill that blocks Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from sex education funding.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has officially confirmed the presence of Triatoma sanguisuga in Delaware for the first time.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a “Dear Colleague” letter Wednesday with warnings about the high prevalence and risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among transgender individuals.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Monday that 555 cases of measles have been confirmed in 20 states.

The nation’s opioid crisis is killing young white American men more than any other demographic group, new research from the federal government reveals.

The Washington Post on Wednesday published a searing indictment of the Obama administration for disregarding a plea from health experts to declare a public health emergency for overdoses from fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that was already racking up a body count in 2016 and would go on to kill thousands of people over the next three years.

Pro-life members of Congress and activists expressed shock on Tuesday on the failure of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

The president of Planned Parenthood said on Sunday that the Trump administration’s new rule to prevent family planning grants from going to groups that provide, promote, or refer abortions would result in women not having access to the procedure, even if it saved their lives.