When Andrew Speaker boarded an Air France flight for Paris last month carrying a form of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, he became a global pariah–both for the lethal bug in his system and ...

* Drug distribution programs may worsen resistance * WHO should lead drive for better drugs WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization, governments and nonprofit groups are saving ...

Cameron Currie digs for ants, beetles and other insects in the cypress forests of Florida. Tim Bugni dives for sponges and sea squirts in Puerto Rican reefs. The UW-Madison scientists’ pursuits seem ...

In a remote cave 1,600 feet below New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Hazel Barton, a microbiologist working with Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., has found a drug-resistant bacteria that may one ...

University of Delaware researchers discovered a kissing bug found in New Castle County in July 2023 was infected with a parasite that causes a sometimes lethal disease. It's a first for the state, ...

Imagine a world where bacteria, typically feared for causing disease, are turned into powerful weapons against cancer. That’s exactly what some scientists are working on. And they are beginning to ...

iMedicalApps broke the news today that Epocrates, an athenahealth subsidiary, has pulled its Bugs + Drugs app from the app store. The free mobile app, which launched in fall 2013 shortly after ...

An Oklahoma doctor says ivermectin can be dangerous for people who feel “bugs” on their skin, urging medical evaluation for ...