Fleming, who admittedly discovered penicillin by chance, is reported to have said, “When I woke up just after dawn on ...

A new paper analyzes three decades of fatalities around the world and predicts how "superbugs" will affect human health in ...

Between 2020 and 2021, the U.S. saw a 95 percent rise in these treatment-resistant infections, roughly a third of which were ...

The human suffering caused by sepsis is shocking. New AHRQ analyses show that in 2021, more than 2 million Americans—roughly equivalent to the population of Phoenix, Arizona—were hospitalized with ...

Bird flu has killed millions of fowl and infected, even killed, hundreds of humans. But the jump to cattle has experts ...

Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they were at the same point last year, according to preliminary data from the CDC.

Several labs will work with federal health authorities to develop a test for avian influenza, as the number of human cases ...

Why, in the 40 years since the onset of the HIV pandemic, do we still not have a cure for the nearly 40 million people globally living with HIV?

Increasing clinical evidence links changes in the composition of the gut microbiome to the development of various skin diseases such as eczema.

HIV stigma, for the first time in five years, is on the decline in the United States, despite knowledge gaps in certain ...

That plastic wrap you find around the food you eat is far from benign: A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach ...

A new way of looking at tooth enamel could give scientists a path to deeper understanding of the health of human populations, ...