New COVID-19 vaccines formulated for better protection against the currently circulating variants have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The COVID vaccines available […]

GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations will start vaccinating some 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip against polio on Sunday, a campaign that relies on daily eight-hour […]

Listeriosis during pregnancy, when invasive, can be fatal for the fetus, with a rate of fetal loss or neonatal death of 29%, investigators reported in an […]

(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a Listeria outbreak linked to deli meats has resulted in 14 new illnesses […]

The Ontario government ended its COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program in late July amid a surge in cases. The program began in the fall of 2020, when […]

Vaccines work pretty well. But with a little help, they could work better. Stanford researchers have developed a new vaccine helper that combines two kinds of […]

Scientists at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, have discovered a new antibiotic candidate in a surprising place: The human gut.  In mice, the antibiotic […]

More than half of US states are reporting signs that COVID levels are poised to continue their summerlong rise. The latest CDC wastewater monitoring data shows […]

Like many diseases, whooping cough reached record low levels during the early days of the COVID pandemic. Also known as pertussis, it’s back with a vengeance and […]