In a nutshell A year-long study of hospital sink drains found 67 different bacterial species living there, many resistant to ...

Removing information from the CDC website, as well as other federal health websites, is endangering both patient care and public health, infectious disease experts said Friday.

Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven ...

We hope to be cured when we stay in hospital. But too often, we acquire new infections there. Such "health-care-associated ...

The new study is more evidence that the official U.S. tally of confirmed human bird flu infections — 68 in the last year — is ...

Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has labeled the broccoli recall as a Class I, the highest risk level issued by the ...

By Manuela Bianco Suarez University of Kentucky Healthcare This winter, low temperatures have impacted the state of Kentucky. One of the biggest concerns statewide is the rise in the number of ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — “scares the living daylights” out of doctors, as several shared on a ...

A person should contact a dentist at the first sign of a tooth infection. Early treatment stops ... People with sepsis need treatment in an intensive care unit. Such treatment typically involves ...

No cases of the virus were reported in Arkansas last year until December, when six Arkansas backyard poultry flocks and the Clay County commercial poultry farm were flagged for infection.