Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - Citizens of New Jersey and New York are being hit hard by an outbreak of the mumps, with cases increasing at a rapid rate.

Mumps is a disease that is no longer very common in the U.S., but that hasn’t stopped it from causing some major issues this week in New York and New Jersey.

The New York Department of Health has come out and confirmed that there have been 57 confirmed cases of the mumps since the middle of August. Continue Reading

Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - One thing has become perfectly clear over the past few weeks, there is a major problem in the U.S. in regards to getting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine out to the public, but who is to blame?

The swine flu continues to run rampant all across the U.S. and the delivery of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine is failing to keep up.

Week after week the deliveries of the vaccine fall behind in regards to when they were originally planned to be delivered, leaving Americans greatly concerned. Continue Reading