Multiple high bacteria advisories are in place for Oahu’s North Shore beaches, according to the Hawaii Department of Health.

North Shore beachgoers are getting a hard pause from state health officials. The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health has ...

Haleʻiwa Beach Park on Oʻahu’s North Shore is under a water-quality advisory after routine testing turned up elevated levels ...

Everyone has bacteria that live in their intestines and genital tract. In fact, your body has trillions of bacteria at any one point in time. They help with bodily functions like digesting food and ...

Gulfport Harbor Beach the latest Mississippi Sound beach to test positive for bacteria that could cause illness.

Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in ...

Nobody likes to see an orange flag planted on a Texas beach. That flag means there's a present environmental warning that could affect what you do on said beach ...

Daptomycin is a lipopeptide with bactericidal activity that acts on the cell membrane of enterococci and is often used off-label to treat patients infected with vancomycin-resistant enterococci.