Category: Infectious Disease

Syphilis has increased greatly in Brazil, especially among young people. Learn more about this Sexually Transmitted Disease and how to identify it.

Toilets with air hand dryers have about five times as many bacteria growing on the bathroom surfaces as bathrooms that offer paper towels for drying hands.

An alert from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) highlights new potential side effects of quinolone antibiotics, such as mental disorders and severely low levels of blood glucose.

Only 43% of our bodies are human cells. The other 57% are made up of trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on our skin and inside our bodies. Learn why the microbiome is so important for good health.

Research conducted at Harvard presents a new and promising breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. The new approach forces the virus that is hidden to show itself, and then kills it.

Experiments show that animals with severe infections with fever have a much higher survival rate than animals that do not have a fever. In most cases, fever is a good sign and helps the immune system to better fight infection.

Keeping an animal in the house, especially a dog, can keep us healthier. Especially for children, the microorganisms that dogs bring in from outside helps strengthen our immune system.

A recent study in the British medical journal The Lancet showed that HIV drugs have improved so much that a person diagnosed now may live a near-normal lifespan with proper medication and care.