A study led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity found there is a worrying increase in strep bacteria growing at rapidly different rates in different parts of the country. The ...

The risk of heart related ailments is increasing day by day, and one of its foremost contributors is a condition that is marked with massive accumulation of plaque within the arteries. This plaque ...

One in six bacterial infections worldwide is now resistant to standard treatments, according to anew report from the World Health Organization (WHO) that identified an alarming global rise in ...

The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics. By Andrew Jacobs Across the world, the spread of dangerous infections that ...

(NEXSTAR) – Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Health Department are getting a better idea of what leads to clinical cases of Candida auris, a dangerous ...

An 82-year-old woman in eastern China shocked the nation by swallowing eight small live frogs as she followed a folklore remedy to treat her lower back pain. The octogenarian, surnamed Zhang, was sent ...

Madonna is opening up about the near-fatal infection that landed her in the hospital for several days in 2023. The Queen of Pop was in the intensive care unit for a serious bacterial infection in June ...

A new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases involving over 460,000 children and adolescents across 40 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. suggests that children who were infected with COVID-19 ...

A new study from the CDC found that infection rates for a drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” are on the rise, increasing nearly 70% between 2019 and 2023. The increase was primarily driven by the NDM ...

The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent years. Scientists say people receiving treatment in hospitals are at ...

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. When a hospitalized patient shows signs of a dangerous, potentially deadly infection, you’d expect ...

Share on Pinterest Bacterial infections may sometimes trigger heart attacks, a new study says. Image credit: Viaframe/Getty Images In 2022, about 19.8 million people globally died from heart disease, ...