Improper food storage and unhygienic food processing can lead to bacterial contamination, which causes food poisoning.

Ginger Adams Otis is an editor and reporter with The Wall Street Journal in New York.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we easily recall the empty shelves that once held toilet paper rolls, and how it became a ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

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

New research suggests that lingering cell wall fragments from the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, may be responsible for persistent symptoms long after antibiotic treatment.

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.

Scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body may be responding to remnants of the bacteria that causes Lyme that tend to pool in the liver and ...

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 ...

The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, previously known as the Department of Health and Environmental ...

Scientists have discovered a novel bacterium, Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis, in Oregon's mud flats, named in honor of the ...

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