The Antibiotic That Takes the Bite out of Lyme Apr. 23, 2025 — Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the ...

The story so far: Diseases that can be prevented through vaccination, such as measles, meningitis, and yellow fever, are re-emerging, world health leaders have warned, because millions of children ...

Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles' heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. The efforts of a research team from Bochum and Würzburg give hope for ...

A revolutionary treatment for autoimmune diseases could be on the horizon. Twenty-four million to 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease, in which the body’s immune system mistakenly ...

If you’re thinking about being in the woods this summer, experts are warning to stay alert for ticks, as this year may see a spike in tick-borne diseases, including Lyme disease. The reason?

GTA schools are reporting cases of a disease commonly known as “slapped cheek” syndrome — an infectious virus often appearing in school-age children. A recent letter posted on a door at a ...

Lucía Chávez Gutiérrez (VIB-KU Leuven) has unraveled the genetic contributions to familial Alzheimer's Disease development and revealed how specific mutations act as a clock to predict the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

Entire generations have barely encountered these diseases as high vaccination rates and intensive surveillance efforts have largely shielded the country from major outbreaks. “We were quite ...

It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common tick-borne infection in the United States. That makeup might also be key to developing new treatments for the disease ...