People assume water coolers are 'cleaner,' but a review of 70 studies finds water coolers often harbor more bacteria than tap ...

A bipartisan initiative may change that. On March 4, 2025, Rep. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) ...

Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of ...

A new report says organ donations from the recently deceased dropped last year, resulting in fewer kidney transplants.

The CDC has moved several routine childhood vaccinations from its recommended list. Here's the risk of skipping those ...

Ancient Romans in Britain were riddled with intestinal parasites that spread through human feces. Roundworms and whipworms both live in the intestine and cause various ailments, including abdominal ...

"Female cockroaches eat more than males, so more endotoxins are shed from their fecal matter," explained Madhavi Kakumanu, an NC State research scholar in Schal's lab and co-corresponding author of ...

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And ...

An Aurora-based Children’s Hospital Colorado team has performed the hospital’s and region’s first heart and liver dual-organ transplant. Only 38 pediatric heart and liver dual-organ transplants have ...

Gatherings with family and friends, drinks and feasts – the holidays can be merry and bright and also bring heightened risk of contracting norovirus, sometimes called the "winter vomiting disease" and ...

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has received approval from the New York State Department of Health to open Long Island’s first adult pancreas transplant program. The program will operate ...

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