Discussions about vaccines are complex and often emotionally charged. In this article a pediatrician helps to provide a ...

In today’s interconnected world, the rapid spread of infectious diseases poses a significant threat to global health and economic stability.

The Department of Health Center for Health Development Northern Mindanao encourages patients to have a ‘TB Treatment Partner’ ...

In response to growing concerns over vaccine misinformation, declining public trust in science, and recent outbreaks of ...

Christina Hermos, MD'03, MMSc, hasn't seen a case of measles since she was doing a fellowship two decades ago. And that was a ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

The infectious disease caused by the measles virus is transmitted through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes. It is so contagious, health experts say, 90% of unvaccinated ...

Insulin syringe needle left in seat pocket of airliner jabs man's finger, leaves him with debilitating anxiety over ...

Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a week after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare infectious disease at their home, a pathologist has said. Two-time Oscar winner Hackman, 95, was likely at ...

Infectious diseases also known as contagious diseases, transmissible diseases or communicable diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms that infect a host organism and can be spread ...

Since this pandemic, we have been constantly reminded of the threat that emerging infectious diseases pose, as well as new strains of existing microbes, and even infections that may eventually ...

At a population level, it remains our most harmful infectious disease, with thousands of hospitalisations and 664 deaths last year. Understandably perhaps, many people want to move on from the early ...