The monsoon season can lead to an increase in throat infections due to microbes, weather conditions, and human behaviour. The ...

“The gas inside an air sac is not pressurized (it is roughly the same as the atmospheric pressure at the water’s surface),” ...

When people think about protecting their lungs, they usually think about not smoking. But pulmonologists say there's another ...

Varshavski: I had such a unique patient case to share with you. In fact, it's so unique that my residents and I are doing a ...

UTMB researchers developed plague vaccines that protected mice without interferon-gamma, challenging a long-held view of ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to sturdy air sacs. In Lake Malawi in East Africa, billions of lake fly larvae ...

Millions of Americans and Canadians are breathing bad air right now due to wildfire smoke. Here’s what you need to know masks ...

Public health relies on data – whether it is tracking the effectiveness of a given year’s flu vaccine, monitoring blood lead levels around the country or estimating the prevalence of diabetes. This ...

To fill openings for nurses, surgical techs and more, UW Health pays staff to train for new health careers, on the clock. Now, as other states struggle to find enough health workers, the company ...

Infectious disease research demands more than technical knowledge. At the University of Melbourne, students are learning how safety, regulation and critical thinking can help to turn laboratory ...

As the cyclospora outbreak wreaks havoc across the country, federal funding cuts have weakened the public health system, ...

State and local health officials in Colorado say they have not received the information or access necessary to investigate a ...