Tag: Infections
Tuberculosis on the rise for first time in decades after COVID-19...
Carlos Franco-Paredes, Colorado State University
Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis...
Sepsis is one of the most expensive medical conditions in the...
Alexander (Sasha) Poltorak, Tufts University and Hayley Muendlein, Tufts University
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition arising from the body’s...
What is listeria? A microbiologist explains the bacterium behind recent deadly...
Yvonne Sun, University of Dayton
Bacteria do, and will, end up in food. Everyone eats – intentionally or unintentionally...
What’s cellulitis? A dermatologist explains
Marjorie Montanez-Wiscovich, University of Florida and Arthur Mark Samia, University of Florida
Your skin usually deflects any bacteria it...
Why do older people heal more slowly?
Matthew Steinhauser, University of Pittsburgh
I recently visited an 83-year-old patient in the hospital after EMTs rushed her to the ER with an infected leg...
People’s bodies now run cooler than ‘normal’ – even in the...
Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
Feeling under the weather? Chances are you or your doctor...
EXPLORING NATURE
3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder
Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...
