Flu activity has ticked back up slightly in the US, thanks to a very small increase in infections caused by influenza B — ...

With months left of flu season, influenza cases are on the rise in California and transmission is high in the Bay Area, data ...

It’s a bad viral season in the state, and the number of children immunized against COVID has declined sharply.

With what has already been a severe flu season, local doctors are starting to see an uptick in another illness: Norovirus. “I will say in the last week or so, ...

There is no cure for measles. Doctors can provide supportive care and try to manage the symptoms — reduce fever, prevent dehydration, treat secondary bacterial infections — until the disease has run ...

A doctor explains 5 facts about measles outbreaks. Learn how to spot symptoms, protect high-risk groups and why the MMR vaccine is your best defense.

Rattled by the C.D.C.’s actions and the spread of measles, some parents are scrambling to figure out how to best protect their children.

If you’re over snow days, back-to-back sick days, and school closures, I don’t blame you. One thing that seems to ...

Or at least that’s one conclusion you could draw from Belle Burden’s Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, a taut new book about the collapse of her marriage to a Manhattan asset manager with his own ...

To keep your kids' bedrooms and playrooms clean, pay weekly attention to art supplies, laundry hampers, high-touch surfaces, ...

Learn more about seasonal flu, including where to get a flu vaccine and how to treat seasonal flu.

With the nation's measles-free status in doubt, this is what local public health officials are doing to bolster immunization ...