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An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is over, the government announced on Wednesday, after a five-month response supported by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), and other partners.

Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and “widespread death” from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies

'Health, United States, 2010,' the 34th annual report prepared by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics is now available at www.cdc.gov/nchs. The report includes a compilation of health data from state and federal health agencies as well as an

The use of medical technology in the United States increased dramatically between 1996 and 2006.

Obesity has become a problem in every state, according to data analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. No state reported that less than 20 percent of adults were obese in 2010, which means that no state met the national Healthy

A “radical transformation” of food systems and food habits is critical to combat the growing scourge of overweight and obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean, the United Nations food security agency said on Wednesday.

A senior CDC health official will give an overview of the Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE). CDC is launching the trial in partnership with the Sierra Leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences and the

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 1119-1128, March 2023.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 79, Issue 6, Page e47-e48, June 2023.