Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

At least one person has died and 134 have been infected from an outbreak of salmonella linked to a recall of more than 20 ...

Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to ...

The term "oral health" refers to the health of the mouth, teeth, gums, and other related structures, and it is closely linked ...

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

With the initiative, families can have their baby’s full genetic code sequenced at no cost to identify potentially serious ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

Cars may be a modern phenomenon, but motion sickness is not. More than 2,000 years ago, the physician Hippocrates wrote, “sailing on the sea proves that motion disorders the body”.