A new report says that 13 percent of cancers are linked to bacteria or viruses. Vaccines and treatments offer powerful ...

Drinking water can help against thirst and a dry mouth but it does little to cure the other symptoms of hangovers such as pain, nausea and exhaustion. There is a common notion that when we gulp ...

Your editorial “The Subprime Student Debt Bubble” (Sept. 14) aptly describes the practice of “curing” loans to weak borrowers, whereby the lender rolls over the loan balance (extends the ...

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Intravenous (IV) fluids for dehydration are often used as emergency therapy for older adults. Learn who can administer IVs at ...

Antibiotics have served as the mainstay of BV treatment over the past six decades. Several alternative approaches also deserve attention, however, and can grossly be categorized as treatment with ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections often occur in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions, such as ...

As for what that can mean, the risk statement says for people with compromised immune systems, the microbial contamination “can result in disseminated, life threatening infections such as ...

In case of BV, such targeted diagnosis can basically be made according to the so-called clinical criteria or according to what is designated as the microbiological criteria, although both gold ...