New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked ...

Throughout time, viruses and bacteria have engaged in an endless competition for survival. Bacteria are ever-evolving to ...

New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked ...

This technique, called “experimental evolution”, permitted the phages to adapt to bacterial defenses. This resulted in significant improvements to their ability to kill a wide variety of bacterial ...

Unraveling mechanisms underlying post-acute SARS-CoV-2 sequelae (long COVID) and finding therapeutic solutions require a full understanding of the causative role of SARS-CoV-2 persistence and/or ...

Ethiopia is experiencing its first recorded outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, unfolding amid political unrest, ...

Since the middle of the 20th century, antibiotics have been among the greatest successes in medicine. They save millions of ...

With the government reopening, the dubious panel of vaccine advisors selected by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F.

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Arizona Luminaria. This story is part of Vital Signs, a Grist series exploring the ways climate change affects your health. It is published with ...

Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long COVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found. The study, of nearly 500,000 people ...

The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck has covered long Covid since the condition first emerged.

Before the United States began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B vaccine in 1991, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday—about half of ...