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

Doctors blamed rheumatoid arthritis for a Port Arthur man's chronic joint pain and burning hands. Then his doctor told him to buy a lottery ticket because it had a rarer - but treatable - cause.

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U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer.

McGovern Medical School is the eleventh largest medical school in the United States. Located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, the school was established by the Texas Legislature in 1969 to ad...

Official case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

The federal agency has given the nod for Doravirine/Islatravir (Idvynso), a once-daily, two-drug HIV treatment that demonstrated non-inferior efficacy to standard three-drug regimens in phase 3 trials...

Doctors were stumped by an Oregon man’s deterioration. Then an infectious disease specialist had an aha moment.

Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, FIDSA, MPH, CEO of the Infectious Diseases Society of America discusses the growing measles outbreak in the United States, which has surpassed 730 cases and represents the largest...

Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, FIDSA, MPH, CEO of the Infectious Diseases Society of America discusses the growing measles outbreak in the United States, which has surpassed 730 cases and represents the largest...

Dr. Paul Sax rounds up key takeaways from CROI 2026, the leading HIV research conference.

Data presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) held in Denver, US showed comparable long-term liver transplant outcomes after 15 years between people with and without HIV.  “These results are encouraging and support liver transplants in people with HIV when clinically indicated,” Dr José Miró, from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain, told the audience.

Doxy-PEP reshapes STI prevention, while congenital syphilis surges; experts urge scaling HIV and STI care infrastructure to improve testing and treatment access.