A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with a case of H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials. The ...

The CDC did not break out most data for county or region, but for New York State in 2023, there were 12,393 cases of all ...

Infection is also a risk since bacteria from your hands can get in through the broken skin. To avoid all this, Dr. Lucas ...

Contact lenses and water “are a bad combination” because water makes contact lens wearers vulnerable to eye infections, the ...

The state ranks No. 1 for cases of chlamydia among all states, No. 8 for primary and secondary syphilis, the stage during ...

"I see a glimmer of hope amidst millions of STIs," said Jonathan Mermin, Director of CDC's National Center for HIV, Viral ...

In most cases, you only require gallstone treatment if you experience symptoms. Sometimes, untreated gallstones may lead to complications like pancreatitis, jaundice, and gallbladder infection or ...

Viral infection is the invasion of the body by a small agent known as a virus. Viruses replicate inside host cells and can produce toxins that cause disease. The immune system helps to destroy ...

A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First. He came to NPR in 2021 and is based out of NPR West. Before he joined KPCC, Martínez had never listened to public radio. He views ...

Despite her illness, which was formally diagnosed in 2013 after symptoms first emerged in 2001 ... she blamed it on a urinary tract infection. But the actual cause was a cancer that kills ...

Gonorrhea cases fell in nearly all age groups last year, CDC data show, and a new doxyPEP protocol is being hailed amid a drop in syphilis infections ... noting that the patient's symptoms began on ...