The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

Since the discovery of penicillin nearly a century ago, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a stealthy, pervasive enemy ...

The aging of the innermost cell layer of blood vessels leads to cardiovascular diseases. Researchers at UZH have now shown ...

Researchers used PET/MRI to detect otherwise invisible inflammation. Less clear is how this might influence patient care.

One of the most common diseases ticks can transfer is Lyme disease, Hayes said. The black-legged tick is the primary vector ...

Imagine being responsible for the full 30-day post-discharge care of your surgical patients, including costs and outcomes. This isn’t a hypothetical scenario; it’s the reality of the TEAM initiative, ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

Fishy vaginal odors are more common with bacterial ... a glass slide, and look at it under a microscope. If there are an abnormally large number of Candida microbes and white blood cells ...

Possibilities include: If left untreated, MRSA can spread through the bloodstream, causing septicemia and sepsis (a potentially life-threatening reaction to the blood infection ... become infected ...

A new Cedars-Sinai study demonstrates how gut bacteria can influence the development of blood vessel inflammation in laboratory mice. The findings, if confirmed in humans, would open a potential ...

The blood–brain barrier (BBB ... Nasal cavity commensal bacteria are the densest microbiome in the upper respiratory tract and have a very close connection with the CNS. Therefore, the authors ...

Because fibrocytes are present at the infection site and are directly involved in developing cutaneous leishmaniasis, they are targets for effective, non-toxic cell-based therapies that control and ...