Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — were apparently spared by the cuts made over the ...

It wasn’t clear what role Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 71, may have had in the CDC’s new plan — which was confirmed by two sources to Reuters. Kennedy — an environmental lawyer ...

CDC websites are the first stop for health information for my students and for health care practitioners, and are vital to protecting the U.S. from infectious diseases, like avian flu and COVID-19 ...

(The Hill) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a page on Friday listing the conflicts of interest reported by members of a key vaccine advisory committee. Health ...

New Clue on What Is Leading to Neurodegenerative Diseases Like Alzheimer's and ALS Mar. 14, 2025 — Researchers have revealed a new scientific clue that could unlock the key cellular pathway ...

Lung disease is a general term for several disorders that include airway diseases, lung tissue diseases, and lung circulation diseases, some of which may lead to respiratory failure. During the ...

Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near ...

What is the difference between arthritis and other rheumatic diseases? Arthritis is a group of more than 100 diseases. It is also a type of rheumatic disease. Rheumatic diseases may cause pain, ...

We describe the conditions that drive our results as “diseases of despair,” building off the landmark work of pioneering researchers who coined the now widely used term “deaths of despair.” They ...