Two new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show wastewater monitoring of measles can flag measles ...

Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

The risk of shingles jumps 11-fold after the first dose of the recombinant shingles vaccine, marketed under the name name Shingrix, but decreases by 73% after the second, according to the results of a ...

Public health researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health used computer modeling to reconstruct how ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

Two new studies published in Anaesthesia analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that ...

HealthDay News — In multisociety guidance published in the November issue of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, recommendations are presented for infection prevention and control (IPC) in the ...

Genes that protect the body against infection during youth can do harm in old age, according to a study 1 in mice. The ...

Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of illness and death in the elderly, driven by immune aging, chronic ...

This year's flu season is turning out to be brutal. As a new variant known as subclade K spreads rapidly, a study out today ...

U.S. officials are building a case that ongoing measles outbreaks in South Carolina and other states are unrelated to last ...