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NOTICED a scratching or burning feeling in your throat? Or maybe it’s like you’ve swallowed sandpaper or you have an unquenchable thirst?  As we move into autumn and back-to-school bugs run ...

It starts with a sneeze. Someone on the subway didn't cover their mouth and now a cloud of invisible invaders hangs in the ...

It's time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an ...

It's time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an ...

The historian Kyle Harper on the history of plagues, the rise of anti-vaccination politics, and why measles is back in ...

A single generation can forget what once defined daily life—proof of how powerfully vaccines have reshaped our collective ...

The center will target prevention strategies for Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

A new KFF public opinion poll in partnership with the Washington Post finds that 1 and 6 parents are skipping some childhood ...

Vultures are well adapted to scavenging the dead. Besides the bald head, which keeps the birds cleaner when diving into ...