A new study in fruit flies describes how an animal's gut reacts differently to beneficial microbes versus harmful pathogens.

Relentless coughing echoes through the Mumbai suburb of Govandi, where families live cramped under tarpaulin and salvaged wood. The narrow lanes are waterlogged and airless, and here ...

One child with an unknown exposure and 3 adults with a history of consuming raw palm sap, a known risk factor, died of ...

Minnesota has reported its first H5N1 detection in poultry since April, which involves a commercial turkey farm in Redwood ...

Experts from the UN have urged the government to scrap upcoming changes to disability benefits, which they say risk breaching the UK’s human rights obligations. In the damning letter, the UN Human ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Village of Bellevue has issued a boil water advisory after tests detected total coliform bacteria in the water system. Village Manager Nicole Roberts said the advisory will ...

New research shows bacterial infections may trigger heart attacks. Dormant biofilms in arterial plaques can awaken after stressors like viral infections, causing inflammation and rupture. Targeted ...

Imagine a child with eczema who scratches a patch of irritated skin. A tiny opening forms, invisible to the eye. Into that breach slips a common bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus. For many people, the ...

Another two people are dead and at least 22 more have been hospitalized because of a flesh-eating bacteria in Louisiana, state health officials confirmed. The reports involved Vibrio vulnificus ...

An investigation is underway after a set of human remains believed to belong to a man who has not been seen in three to four weeks was discovered in a remote area of Meigs County Monday afternoon. D.C ...