Dr. Priya Soni, an infectious disease specialist in Los Angeles, grew up learning about microbes. Now she teaches families ...

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As measles cases climb to 400 in Texas, the epicenter of an outbreak of the highly contagious illness, North Carolina is ...

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Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

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The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of ...

A serious complication of measles is acute encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, which can result in permanent brain ...

In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections.

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Infusion therapy is a medical treatment where fluids, medications, or nutrients are delivered directly into a patient’s ...