Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Antibiotics are medicines that treat bacterial infections by killing bacteria or stopping their growth. Penicillins are a subclass of antibiotics used to treat illnesses like streptococcal infections ...

A lot of people think of pneumonia as a case of a cold gone haywire, but there is so much more to the disease than that. And knowing exactly what pneumonia is can help you protect yourself and the ...

Find out how different vaccines for the coronavirus cause your body to create antibodies that fight the virus.

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The virus infected different regions of the brain depending on the innate immune system of the mouse. When the researchers zoomed in on the cells in the infected brain regions, they could see that the ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

MANCHESTER, England — The risks for infection are broadly similar regardless of the biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying drug used to treat inflammatory arthritis, but different patterns ...

A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen – virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite – has proved successful after a decade of use. The test has the ...