A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen – virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite – has proved successful after a decade of use. The test has the ...

A new large-scale study has found that being hospitalized with an infection can significantly raise the risk of developing ...

As cold and flu season ramps up, cases of pneumonia are up too. Here are the different types of pneumonia to look out for as the winter months settle in. This chest x-ray shows more opacity next to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an alert to health care providers about bacterial infections as a strain of the meningococcal disease begins to circulate within the United ...

The CDC says bacterial pneumonia cases have increased in the last six months. Bacterial pneumonia cases are on the rise in young children, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

HAMBURG, Germany — Respiratory tract infections and asthma are 10 times more prevalent at type 2 diabetes diagnosis compared with matched controls without a diagnosis, shows a longitudinal study ...

A large-scale meta-analysis, led by first author Wei Yu Chua from the National University of Singapore and corresponding author Eng-King Tan at the National Neuroscience Institute and Duke-NUS Medical ...