India has issued a health alert after infections and deaths caused by a rare water-borne "brain-eating" amoeba doubled compared to last year in the southern state of Kerala. Science X Daily and the ...

Severe childhood malaria is linked to long-term cognitive impairment, according to a new study from Indiana University School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators at Makerere University in ...

We are learning more about COVID-19 disease every day. Adults of any age with certain underlying medical conditions are at increased risk for severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19.

THIS was the title of the presidential address delivered by Lieut.-Colonel H. E. Shortt to the Section of Medical and Veterinary Research of the twenty-third Indian Science Congress, Indore (Jan. 2-8) ...

While earlier ages of the world were marked by devastating plagues of infectious disease, with millions of deaths, the new century boasted incredible advances in medical science that led to its ...

A virus is a sneaky little bugger whose goal is to get inside your body. When it does enter your body it finds a normal cell to infect. Once it’s inside the cell, the virus will create newly copied ...