A drug-resistant strain of shigella infections, which cause diarrhea, are increasing in the United States, according to federal health officials. In an April 9 report from the Centers for Disease ...

Yeast infections often begin with a subtle itch that's easy to ignore at first. But that mild irritation can escalate into persistent discomfort, burning and other symptoms that interfere with ...

New research has identified an association between late-onset dementia and certain infections. The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, investigated the link between the two, exploring ...

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

Associations between dementia-related diseases. For clarity, the figure illustrates associations between 14 of the 29 dementia-related diseases identified in the study (all 29 diseases are shown in ...

"TMVII is a specific type of fungus that is part of a larger family that causes the usually benign but irksome conditions such as ringworm, jock itch and athlete's foot," Dr. Hayden Andrews, an ...

Being overweight doesn’t just make people more susceptible to chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes—it might also increase their risk of severe influenza and other infections, a new ...

Gynecologists long viewed bacterial vaginosis as solely a women’s issue — until a study that treated their male partners, too, proved otherwise. By Rachel E. Gross Rarely does a single study change ...

Gaffin is an infectious disease physician in New Jersey. Recently, a former patient contacted me about his wife. “She had a recent stroke which has caused cognitive decline along with slow-growing ...

Maternal infection and sepsis are major causes of maternal death and severe illness worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Inconsistent implementation of evidence-based ...

As sniffle season sets in, sinus infections are among the most common illnesses seen in doctors’ offices. For most people, they’re nothing more than an inconvenience and a few days of congestion, but, ...

Covid-19 infections have been strongly linked with cardiovascular conditions like heart disease and stroke, but new research shows that other viral infections such as influenza, HIV, hepatitis C and ...