As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

DNA found in museum pieces could provide a unique opportunity to study the history and spread of infectious diseases, ...

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

It's never a good thing when harmful bacteria are present on surfaces in hospitals, as they can cause life-threatening ...

Not surprisingly, finding the magic bullet has become the holy grail for Alzheimer’s researchers. But it’s proving to be an ...

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

Trauma Services reports that fentanyl has turned into a crisis for first responders, property managers, and maintenance ...

This year, 8,077 cases of whooping cough have been reported in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease ...

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 standard treatment. At ...

This year, 8,077 cases of whooping cough have been reported in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

A team of biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from animal hosts to ...