After her son died in 2024 from septic shock from a rare bacterium, a mom is speaking out, hoping to raise awareness about ...

Women using vaginal estrogen had markedly lower sepsis and death rates and fewer hospitalizations than women not using the ...

None of the signs were quite right, but Viswanathan — a hospitalist at NYU Langone Health, New York City, and medical ...

The following is a summary of “Predictors of severe disease in Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis bacteremia: a population-based study,” published in the April 2025 issue of BMC Infectious ...

Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as one of the foremost public health concerns of the 21st century. Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics has ...

There are many ways to kill microbes that cause dangerous infections. Combining genetic screening with machine learning can ...

Bacterial infection that thrives in wet soil and stagnant water has hit particularly hard in regions affected by flooding ...

The findings suggest that babies who had infections during their first four weeks of life tend to have poorer brain growth by ...

If you or your child caught a bacterial infection, you’d expect antibiotics to work. That’s been the case for around a ...

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...

The NHS has issued a stark warning and says typhoid fever is a particularly unpleasant bacterial infection that can spread ...

A new study shows that combining heavy alcohol use with burn trauma causes severe disruptions in the gut microbiome, leading ...