It's common knowledge that ticks can spread infections that cause serious illnesses, including Lyme disease. Now health ...

The approval of Utebzi provides clinicians with the first oral carbapenem option to treat adult complicated urinary tract infections, potentially reducing the clinical and financial burdens of ...

Intestinal motility is a function of the enteric nervous system involving secretion of the excitatory neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh). Although gut commensal bacteria are key regulators of ...

A new study pinpoints two species of bacteria that work together to dry out the lining of the gut and cause constipation It is as unfortunate an ailment as it is ubiquitous: at some point in our life, ...

Self-affirmation theory was proposed by psychologist Claude Steele in the late 1980s and remains popular today. The theory suggests we have a deep desire to craft a personal narrative that we are ...

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PITTSFIELD — Seven patients have tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease, Berkshire Health Systems reported on Thursday. One of the patients later died, although because of ...

Florida health officials reported that four people died and over a half dozen others were made sick this year by a rare "flesh-eating" bacteria. Vibrio vulnificus, which is found in saltwater, ...

A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...

The bacteria of the family Desulfobulbaceae are like living electric cables—they can conduct electrons over centimeter-scale distances along their filamentous structures. These electric currents can ...

Scientists describe molecules like DNA or the amino acids that build proteins as being left-handed or right-handed in their configurations. In humans, the left hand and the right hand are mirror ...

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of ...