The U.S. obesity epidemic continues to worsen: The latest reports show that 40 percent of U.S. women are obese.

For the first time in many years, the overall death rate ticked up in 2015, according to new federal data. It’s not clear why.

The CDC, WHO and others warn that it’s only a matter of time before people start becoming infected with ultimate superbugs.

A giant U.S. study meant to help decide whether cellphones cause cancer is coming back with confusing results.

It doesn’t spell doom just yet.

Federal health agencies are not trying to sneak extra money out of Congress as part of their Zika funding request, a top health official said Tuesday.

The epidemic is the “price being paid for a massive policy failure that dropped the ball on mosquito control in the 1970s,” WHO’s head said on Monday.

President Obama on Friday rejected two funding offers, urging lawmakers to give him the money he asked for as soon as possible to fight the spread of the virus.

More than 270 pregnant women in the U.S. are infected with the Zika virus, federal health officials announced Friday.

The Senate has a bipartisan compromise deal to give President Barack Obama more than half the money he’s asked for to fight the Zika virus.