New research says diabetes cost the nation a record $245 billion in 2012, up more than 40 percent in the past five years.

You can identify the source of an outbreak, based on actual cases investigated by the Centers for Disease Control.

CDC says bad flu outbreak may cost employers $10 billion in health care costs alone.

A robust global economy spreads wealth — and pandemics like the flu, SARS, even the plague.

Public health experts discuss a new way to bring down the cost of treatment.

The city of Dallas Texas has authorized the first aerial spraying of pesticides since the 1960s to stop an outbreak of West Nile virus. Dallas County has seen nearly 200 cases of the mosquito born illness and ten deaths.

A new study that predicts that Americans could be spending $25 billion a year by the end of this decade on genetics testing. It's believed that the prospect of being able to sequence whole genomes at an affordable cost now is really a gamechanger.