Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is asking the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an agencywide “scientific process” on ...

While national attention is rightly focused on the alarming resurgence of measles, another dangerous and preventable disease is quietly surging to historic levels. Pertussis, or whooping cough ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold ...

June 10, 2024 — Scientists have grown 'mini-guts' in the lab to help understand Crohn's disease, showing that 'switches' that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease ...

Share on Pinterest New research linked microplastics found in common household products to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Carlo Franco/Getty Images A new study says plastics ...

As research suggests climate change could contribute to rising rates of infectious diseases, some researchers say plant-based diets could help lessen the environmental burden of the meat industry ...

“Diseases know no borders,” said Ocaranza, El Paso’s top public health doctor, “so as people are mobile, they’re going to be coming and receiving medical attention in El Paso but they ma ...

Diseases are abnormal conditions that have a specific set of signs and symptoms. Diseases can have an external cause, such as an infection, or an internal cause, such as autoimmune diseases. The ...

A PLANT pathologist from the University of the Southeastern Philippines (USEP) in Davao City is testing bacterial endophytes from the roots of a healthy banana plant to fight the fungus of an infected ...

The report confirmed that Gene Hackman's wife died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but potentially fatal rodent-borne disease. The bodies of the Oscar-winning actor, 95, and his wife of ...

An infected adult was mainly confined to the airport's Terminal 1 area, potentially exposing hundreds of others to the world's most infectious disease. The person was at the airport - the world's ...