In the United States, the combined annual medical costs and lost productivity from acute intestinal infectious diseases is estimated to be $23 billion per year; in developing countries ...

are showing great potential for enhancing targeted treatment and sustained release of medications in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, particularly for managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

ORLANDO — Using catheter-associated urinary tract infections as a metric for ... change could contribute to rising rates of infectious diseases, some researchers say plant-based diets could ...

Infectious diseases are disorders that are caused by organisms, usually microscopic in size, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites that are passed, directly or indirectly, from one person to ...

From heat-related illnesses to the geographic expansion of infectious ... body's gastrointestinal lining becomes more ...

According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an estimated 8% of ... potentially affecting the digestive tract, blood vessels and internal organs. It is also more common ...

The measles virus attacks long-lived immune cells, reducing antibody-mediated protection from other infectious diseases and casting a long shadow of childhood mortality. Hannah is an Assistant Editor ...