A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide ...

Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

Clinical trials have been pivotal to the improvements in public health and clinical care, leading to many millions of additional years of healthy life globally. Some examples of disease areas in which ...

The research, published Feb. 12 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, found that the collaboration between antimicrobial stewardship physicians and pharmacists, along with the use of local ...

When infection rates rise—or in extreme cases—a pandemic hits, it's impossible to test everyone. Time, money and resources ...

Early signs of whooping cough in adults look very much like a common cold, Dr. Loafman says. For the first week or so of ...

A 22-year-old Omaha woman has been attending a long COVID program at Madonna Rehabilitation for months after contracting the virus multiple times while working as a certified nursing assistant.

This webinar was co-hosted by CDC and Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy on Tuesday, November 14 at 3pm ET. Speakers discussed using data for ...

The benefits of antibiotics are well known, but the risks are not. In this video, Christian Lillis, son of Peggy Lillis, shares his personal story of losing his mother to ...

Babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic had much lower risk for respiratory infections and antibiotic prescriptions during their first 18 months.

Healthcare professionals believe that AI can help reduce the burden on doctors, nurses and other workers in the industry. Here’s how it’s already being used.

"Playful" people differ from others in that they display "greater optimism when envisioning future possibilities," are more ...