Sixty percent of children diagnosed with the flu aren't receiving antiviral medications, according to a study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers. 

Already, Valley fever costs about $1.5 billion per year in Arizona and California, and experts anticipate the fungus that causes the illness will widen its reach in the country over the next few decades, The Washington Post reported Nov. 13.

Respiratory virus season is heating up in the U.S., and hospitals are starting to feel the effects amid an influx of respiratory syncytial virus and influenza patients. Meanwhile, new COVID-19 admissions, which had been declining for several weeks straight, have stabilized. 

Flu activity is beginning to rise across several regions of the U.S. including the South Central, Southeast and West Coast regions, according to the latest CDC data.

Lower fertility rates, declining births and rising death rates will all contribute to a decline in the U.S. population in the second half of the century, according to a Nov. 9 report from the U.S. Census Bureau. 

A case of another locally acquired, rare mosquito-borne infection — St. Louis encephalitis —  was confirmed Nov. 9 by health officials in Long Beach, Calif.

A new report from the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health shows 70% of U.S. counties do not have sufficient mental health resources to support new mothers, including 157 counties that are "maternal mental health dark zones," which are areas determined to have the highest risks and lowest resources. 

An unsanitary factory in India manufactured over-the-counter eye drops that the FDA last month warned consumers to stop using, according to inspection reports obtained by Bloomberg. 

The number of kindergarten students who received a vaccine exemption has reached an all-time high, a Nov. 10 CDC report found.

Gargling with salt water and rinsing nasal passages may ease COVID-19 symptoms and lower the risk of hospitalization, new research suggests. 

The first study to investigate long COVID-19 and allergic diseases has found a link between the two, according to research published in Clinical & Experimental Allergy on Nov. 8. 

The majority of hospital staff received their flu shot during last year's respiratory virus season, while less than half of nursing home staff received one. Meanwhile, less than a quarter of healthcare personnel across both settings had gotten up-to-date COVID-19 shots, according to a newly released CDC report. 

Getting both a COVID-19 vaccine and the flu shot in one fell swoop is just as effective as getting the two jabs separately, a study published Nov. 8 in JAMA has determined. 

Abortion policy and pro-choice candidates sustained victories in several states in what was the second election cycle since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Compared to 2012, more than 10 times as many congenital syphilis cases were reported in 2022, marking a 1,022% jump in newborn syphilis cases, according to CDC data released Nov. 7.

Central Maine Medical Center has discharged the first of three patient survivors of the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston that killed 18 and wounded 13. 

Health officials in Northern California have contacted more than 300 people who could have been exposed to tuberculosis at a casino in Pacheco.

Weekly emergency department visits for flu and respiratory syncytial virus have been on the rise the past few weeks, while visits for COVID-19 have decreased. 

Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico and the District of Columbia, are the only areas of the nation reporting moderate to high levels of flu activity, according to CDC data as of Nov. 3. 

Four major airports across the U.S. will become sites of an expanded infectious disease surveillance effort from the CDC's Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program, according to a Nov. 6 news release.