In a nutshell A year-long study of hospital sink drains found 67 different bacterial species living there, many resistant to ...

Investigators say a woman boarding dogs through a popular app left a prong collar on a Belgian Malinois for two weeks, causing deep wounds and severe infection.

Viruses and germs lurk everywhere: on surfaces that we touch and in the air. People catch most of them by breathing them in. “Many viruses like to enter through the ...

New research suggests that fluoxetine, commonly used as an antidepressant, may also help protect against infections and sepsis.

The US is in the throes of an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen ...

Bird flu takes toll on farmersBlood testing of large-animal veterinarians suggests that H5N1 bird flu has spread more widely than US surveillance of the virus is capturing, according to a new study by ...

The Senate approved Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary, despite some misgivings about his understanding of the Medicare and Medicaid programs he’ll be tasked with overseeing and his controversial ...

Houston Healthcare Perry reported no hospital-associated infections in 2024, helping to fight the national trend. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, across the United ...

The new study is more evidence that the official U.S. tally of confirmed human bird flu infections — 68 in the last year — is likely a significant undercount, said Dr. Gregory Gray, an infectious ...

Bird flu persists in Iowa in 2025, with a northwest Iowa turkey flock where an infection was detected destroyed to prevent ...

On Thursday, February 13, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be Secretary of Health and Human Services ...

Blood samples showed evidence of past bird flu infections in veterinarians despite the doctors never reporting symptoms or ...