Mumbai: A drop in temperature, accompanied by a rise in levels of air pollutants, has led to a spurt in acute respiratory ...

New research from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has shown gut and bloodstream infections are caused by the same bacteria, giving hope of better prevention and diagnosis of deadly ...

Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven't had to face in ...

Laboratory evidence now shows that an ongoing outbreak of infant botulism infections began in December 2023.

Despite a CDC committee recently changing decades-old guidance on the hepatitis vaccine, Colorado health experts say they ...

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote ...

Learn what happens to cells inside the nose during an RSV infection, and why infants are so vulnerable to the virus.

A new strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has been detected in the United Kingdom, according to health officials.

Senate Democrats say Kennedy has undermined scientific agencies as preventable diseases surge.

While not all premature births can be prevented, many are avoidable with timely and consistent care. The foundation begins even before pregnancy ...

During the recent ACIP meeting, several officials compared the hepatitis B policy in the U.S. to the one in Denmark, where healthy infants do not receive a birth dose. During the recent ACIP meeting, ...

Oregon public health officials rebuked a federal panel’s new recommendation that only newborns with mothers who tested ...