For populations that are already infected, we really have no tools to help them,” says Dr. Bronstein with regret.

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

In people without the disease this sequence is repeated just 15 to 35 times. They discovered that DNA tracts with 40 or more such “repeats” expand over time until they are hundreds of CAGs long.

For decades, researchers with funding from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have labored ... Straight, white men are still overrepresented in clinical research ...

Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the 17th century, is one of the most deadly diseases to which humans have ever been exposed. Black rats often live close ...

What Is White Matter Disease? White matter disease is the wearing away of tissue in the largest and deepest part of your brain. The loss of white matter function has a number of causes ...

White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are commonly detected on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, occurring in both typical aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Despite their frequent ...

In response, China’s National Disease Control and Prevention Administration (NCDPA) has launched a pilot monitoring system aimed at identifying and managing pneumonia of unknown origin.

Some health experts predict the problem will worsen. “Historically, stones were pretty much a disease of white, middle-aged men, but that’s changed dramatically over the last 30 years,” said ...

A single-center study of children hospitalized with acute respiratory infections found that children in certain racial and ethnic groups were more likely to receive broad-spectrum antibiotics than ...

The new year is certain to bring the spread of infectious diseases – both new and old. And several factors make 2025 ripe for transmission in the U.S., including declining childhood vaccination ...