In the aftermath of global health crises, new research has shed light on the troubling neurological effects of severe infections. Groundbreaking studies reveal structural damage within one of the body ...

Chikungunya virus, which is transmitted to people by infected Aedes mosquitoes and characterized by high fever and intense ...

One of the remaining mysteries of the human immune system is why a certain cell, called a B cell, which retains a memory for past infections -- ensuring we fight off diseases we have experienced ...

Why do some people recover easily from bacterial infections while others rapidly deteriorate into life-threatening sepsis?

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have discovered a mechanism that drives the long-term decline in immune response that is observed after tuberculosis (TB) has ...

Across two large trials, roughly 20% of people treated with bepirovirsen had undetectable levels of the virus after stopping ...

Hospital-treated infections like cystitis were associated with higher dementia risk, regardless of other comorbidities, observational data indicated. The link between severe infection and dementia was ...

Severe infections increase the risk of dementia independently of other coexisting illnesses, according to a new study published March 24 th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Pyry Sipilä of ...

You’ve heard of long Covid, a condition in which the acute infection subsides but troubling symptoms persist. Less well known is chronic Covid: The virus just doesn’t leave, sometimes staying in ...

In phase III study, patients taking bulevirtide had ALT normalization and steep drops in H ...

When I was a child, I became accustomed to ear infections. At least once a year, I would feel the telltale symptoms: pressure, the uncanny feeling of being underwater when I tried to swallow, and ...

Danni-Lea Sandland and her son, Clay, developed thrush from an ultra-rare genetic disorder that impacts just a handful of ...