Most medical trainees have never seen measles or its complications, muscle rigidity from tetanus, or an infant struggling to ...

Candida auris is adapting to warmer ecosystems, including the human body. The first US case was reported in 2016. In 2023, 4,514 new C. auris cases were reported in the United States, according to the ...

NEW YORK — People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals — and the ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The world is already witnessing the consequences of human-caused climate change, including hotter temperatures, rising sea levels, and more ...

Infectious diseases are an increasing threat to wildlife populations globally, and marine mammals are no exception. Dolphins, ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Back at the turn of the 21st century, Valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the United States, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases per year, mostly in California and Arizona. Two decades ...

Report examines how to improve CDC’s network of quarantine stations, using lessons learned from COVID-19 Among the many parts of the U.S. public health system strained by the COVID-19 pandemic were ...