We are facing a new threat to global health. The COVID-19 pandemic made it clear to health-care providers, public health practitioners, policy makers, and communities that pathogens do not respect ...

there is a higher risk for HIV developing resistance to current medications. Large populations of immunocompromised people ...

Pseudoscience has recently re-emerged in the U.S. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a major global health issue, affects millions worldwide with latent and active infections. This airborne ...

If left untreated, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) almost always will progress to AIDS, even after many years. The immune defenses become compromised and the body is less able to defend itself ...

Around the world, pathogens and parasites are responding to the changes in unexpected ways, fueling the rise of pandemics and the extinction of countless plant and animal species. But all is not lost.

If you're worried about HIV infection, you may wonder whether it's safe to have oral sex. While it's not risk-free, the chances of spreading the virus that causes AIDS are very low if you take the ...

Many of the fears have been fueled by media reports which either overstate the risk of acquiring HIV through accidental occupational needlestick injuries or spotlight cases in which victims are ...

Survival by drug-resistance pattern of pathogen of a HIV-positive cohort. INH: Isoniazid; MDR: Multidrug resistant; SM: Streptomycin. Reproduced with permision from [45].

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital have discovered that T cells—white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens—can completely prevent viral ...

Boghuma Titanji, an HIV researcher at Emory University, chimed in: “How do I get on this committee which sounds like they do mushrooms while renaming pathogens😂?” Angela Rasmussen ...