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
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
