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 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 ...

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 ...

The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck has covered long Covid since the condition first emerged.

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 ...

Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70 per cent in the United States between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from US Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

The number of infections by drug-resistant, “nightmare bacteria” rose by almost 70 percent between 2019 and 2023 in the United States, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

Scientists from Finland and the UK have uncovered groundbreaking evidence that heart attacks may be triggered by infectious processes rather than just cholesterol and lifestyle factors. Hidden ...

A new study has discovered another way to potentially prevent COVID-19. Researchers at Saarland University in Germany headed a clinical trial that found a nasal spray could reduce the risk of ...

Daily squirts of a safe, over-the-counter allergy nasal spray may prevent COVID-19 infections from taking hold, according to results published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. In a mid-staged trial, ...