According to a new study, the long-term survivors of traumatic brain injury have high number of amyloid-ß (Aß) plaques if they develop brain issues, which is a mark of Alzheimer's disease.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), seven employees of an Oregon zoo contracted tuberculosis from three elephants in their care in 2013. Despite of being contracted with the disease, the staff members at the Oregon Zoo in Portland displayed no symptoms and were not contagious because the diseases was in latent form of the respiratory illness.

The primary aftermath from the Bacillus anthracis (bacillus anthracis) alarm, which occurred recently has come under light. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has chosen to reassign Michael Farrell, the chief of the Bioterror Rapid Response and Advanced Technology Laboratory, which was in charge of the Bacillus anthracis alarm.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released new data on obesity rates among children aged between two and five years old. A decline of 43% has been found in the above mentioned age group over past 10 years.

As per the CDC, a decline has also been witnessed in obesity rates for young children included in the federal nutrition plans. It has happened for the first time that decline in both the categories has been witnessed in decades.

About 20% of children in California are suffering of mysterious polio-like illness, said doctors while citing an example of Sofia Jarvis, a four-year-old girl.

Irrespective of person's physique like normal or thinner people, consumption of added sugar increases risk of fatal heart problems, revealed a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.