The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

Not surprisingly, finding the magic bullet has become the holy grail for Alzheimer’s researchers. But it’s proving to be an ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

UTIs are the cause of roughly 8 million emergency room visits and 100,000 hospitalizations in the US each year, GSK said.

Cases of group A streptococcus (GAS) have been on the rise in the past decade. The bacteria can cause a range of diseases ...

Invasive group A streptococcal infections in children have significantly increased over recent years, particularly following COVID-19.

The parents of a baby boy who died from a treatable bacterial infection say they are working to help others avoid a similar ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing an increase in cases viral sore throats, the flu, a stomach bug, allergies and ...

Light AI's dedicated team is currently working to advance diagnostics on healthcare issues and will provide updates as new algorithms are refined. This expanded ecosystem will not only provide ...

Learn why 3 nasty infections keep bouncing back stronger, from immune challenges to environmental factors, and how they defy ...

An aggressive and potentially deadly form of strep infections is quietly spreading — and it’s striking hardest among the most ...