More than half the women in the small, single-arm trial experienced symptom relief in 24 hours.

"No one has survived rabies once symptoms have set in."

Measles is traveling, with outbreaks in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, and exposures on transportation and in sports. What should you know before getting on a plane or train?

Study links gut bacteria to cancer survival, and ties pretreatment signal to chemotherapy toxicity.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

Anopheles stephensi, a mosquito species non-native to Africa, is spreading across the continent, complicating malaria-control efforts. How big a threat are these mosquitoes? Harvard Chan School's Flam...

More children are eventually getting vaccinated, but not on time. A decade of New York data reveals what's behind the growing delays and why doctors say they matter.

More than 2 million new cancers diagnosed worldwide in 2024 could be attributable to infections, according to study findings.This equates to about one of every eight cases.

Medical experts say highly contagious measles, once eliminated in the U.S., has gained enough of a foothold through rising vaccine hesitancy to reestablish itself as an ongoing problem. Despite a safe...

Mercer County is seeing a growing number of measles cases. As the state officially surpassed 900 total cases, Mercer County has seen 19 during that time, including seven new cases in the past week. Wi...

The updated tally comes after Pennsylvania reported four measles-associated deaths in 2026 in a growing outbreak.

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A promising biotech startup backed by mostly local investors has reached a deal to sell its intellectual property, which comprised the bulk of its assets, through a bankruptcy auction.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed a second measles-related death in the country this year, as cases continue ​to rise across the United States.

Pennsylvania officials say people have died from measles in that state.

The 7,870 cholera deaths reported in 2025 represent the most since 1999.

Cleveland Clinic increases newborn infection detection 2.5x through expanded congenital cytomegalovirus screening across Ohio locations.

High-risk NEWS2 scores effectively identify patients with suspected sepsis who require urgent antibiotics to prevent in-hospital mortality.

AI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.

Advances in membrane design are helping manufacturers address the demands of intensified bioprocessing and emerging biotherapeutic formats.

German COVID‑19 vaccine ​maker BioNTech said on Monday that ‌it would close German sites that it has failed to sell as it pivots away from ​pandemic-era manufacturing.

A federal judge in Delaware on Monday rejected Pfizer , BioNTech and Moderna's requests ​to dismiss patent lawsuits filed against them by Bayer's ‌Monsanto unit over the messenger RNA technology used ...

Told as a teenager that he was not competitive enough for medicine, Clive Gray went on to become a HIV immunologist. The 2026 Royal Society Africa Prize winner reflects on failure, mentoring and the q...

CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level data

The deadly disease has killed nearly 4,000 people since May as the DRC struggles with a shortage of healthcare workers

From 2015 to 2023, US MenB rates remained low, marked by significant regional and demographic disparities.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo has surged past 8,000 as the country struggles with a shortage of health workers. The new statistics were released Sunday.

Syndromic testing has made ID diagnostics faster and, in many situations, more actionable. But the panels are best understood as tools that sharpen decision making, not replace it.

Pennsylvania's measles outbreak continued to worsen, with 68 new infections reported since Wednesday last week, ​bringing the total to 903 on Monday, ‌health department data showed, as the state grapp...

You can blast these hospital-haunting bugs with radiation for 200 hours and they still won’t die.

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.

Jennifer Reich has spent two decades speaking to families about their immunization decisions. In an interview, she unpacks what she's learned.

Routine healthcare has been severely disrupted in communities hit hardest by Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, where fear of infection and pressure on hospitals are stymieing pediatric immunizati...

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

California health officials are on the lookout for new measles cases, after someone with the vaccine-preventable disease rode a passenger train and busses through six counties.

Some local families are switching pediatricians as clinics enforce immunization policies.

Merck discontinued Recarbio, an important antibiotic in the U.S., despite concerns over resistance to superbugs.

The objections prevented UN member states from endorsing a political declaration that aims for better international coordination.

Prehospital fever was associated with increased odds of timely antibiotics, while GI symptoms were tied to lower odds.

Over half the patients are young children, and California and Nevada have the most cases.