An umbrella meta-analysis confirms that probiotic supplementation, especially multi-strain, lowers the risk of necrotising enterocolitis and related mortality in preterm infants.

Another widespread virus that transmits through oral contact is herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which infects over two-thirds of the global population and can, in rare cases, lead to encephalitis or ...

The comprehensive report out of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the value of long-term research into the epidemiology of infectious illnesses that had ...

At least four of the individual cases have also been in public settings while infectious, AHS said. Many of the exposures in Alberta have occurred at medical facilities. People who were in the ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during ...

From an infectious diseases standpoint, the HHS restructuring is slated to fold the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

It's well known, too, that respiratory viruses can increase risks for heart disease, said Anna Wald, MD, an infectious disease physician at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

A colleague who spends summers in New Mexico, where there is an ongoing measles outbreak, had a question for Healio’s infectious diseases news team: If she was vaccinated against measles in the ...

It is known to spread faster in warm weather. Infectious disease expert Dr Elizabeth Sheridan told The Telegraph that Weil's - can be spread by rats - is what she is most concerned about for ...

(NASDAQ:MRNA) is set to present a series of scientific studies at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Global Congress in Vienna, Austria, from April 11 ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the Arctic, according to a broad international consortium of scientists ...