Infections happen year-round, but peak whooping cough season lasts from late summer through fall. Pertussis is a cyclical disease, meaning it might spread widely through a community and then disappear ...

If you feel ill but your symptoms are only above the neck — a stuffy nose, a bit of a sore throat — you could just have a ...

AROUND 8 in 1,000 adults will get pneumonia every year – and it’s important to know the symptoms. Usually caused by a ...

The makers of ByHeart infant formula say tests of products tied to a botulism outbreak show that all of the company's ...

Bacterial meningitis, also known as pyogenic meningitis, is a type of meningitis caused by a bacterial infection. Meningitis means an inflammation of the meninges, the thin membranes that surround the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just ...

Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the onset of Parkinson's ...

Another case of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," has been reported in Florida. Here's how to protect ...

Laboratory tests of ByHeart infant formula confirmed some samples were contaminated with the type of bacteria that has ...