Healthcare systems in Ghana and much of sub-Saharan Africa face significant hurdles . Infectious diseases like tuberculosis, resistant bacterial infections, and ongoing malaria continue to stretch ...

A Professor of Microbiology at Lagos State University (LASU) in Ojo, Dauphin Moro, has expressed his concerns about Nigeria’s heavy reliance on imported vaccines. He urged the Nigerian government to ...

Residents of Williams Bay deserve easily accessible, interpretable information to understand their water quality and their health risks.

From the stomach to the colon, researchers are uncovering how shifts in the gut microbiome may drive cancers across the ...

This post was updated Oct. 23 at 7:31 p.m. It goes by many names. The frat flu, freshmen fever, dorm disease – you know what ...

Who is the Antichrist, the biblical antagonist whose rise marks the beginning of the end-times? Peter Thiel recently took a stab at answering this age-old question. Thiel kicks off the lecture series ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% rise in infections in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023. Also known as ...

The UAB Department of Microbiology will host the 2025 Susan Roberts Dubay Endowed Lecture on Oct. 14, welcoming Lora Hooper, Ph.D., as this year’s keynote speaker presenting, “Vitamin A and barrier ...

Researchers have found a way to make synthetic viruses that can kill bacteria. They hope to use the method to develop a new treatment for dangerous infections. Using an AI model trained on ...

CORRECTED September 30, 2025 // An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the two drugs which are effective against NDM-CRE. The article has been updated to state aztreonam-avibactam and ...

Antibiotic-resistant “nightmare bacteria” infections have risen by 69 percent in the U.S., a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Patients with bacteria that can resist ...

Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70 per cent in the United States between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from US Centers for Disease Control and ...