A fast-growing outbreak of meningitis in southern England has killed a teenager and a 21-year-old student at the University ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco used a naturally ...

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Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine ...

Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut ...

Getting sick is always uncomfortable and inconvenient. The good news is that you can prevent many common types of illness. Critical role of vaccines in general health Vaccines can help control and ...