Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin ...

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

Exposure to antibiotics prior to age 2 is associated with a 24% increased risk of asthma and 33% increased risk of food allergies in later childhood, researchers reported recently in the Journal of ...

If you or your child caught a bacterial infection, you’d expect antibiotics to work. That’s been the case for around a ...

A new study reveals that overusing antibiotics in children under 2 may raise the risk of asthma and food allergies later in ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

Recent discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...

Dispensing antibiotics too often to babies and toddlers could leave the youngsters vulnerable to developing allergies and asthma, according to a team of US-based doctors and scientists.Extra ...

In the future, ten million people may die every year from infections caused by bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Researchers at the ...

The focus of the study in dialysis patients, in whom bacterial infections often compromise tunnelled cuffed catheters - a ...