Infection

Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old woman who made headlines after she lost her hands and most of her legs to a flesh…

Dude! What a shitty garbage year this has been. I mean, pretty much every year in the history of years has been a…

If you knew for sure that someone had given you genital herpes, would you sue them? One woman in Oregon did, and now…

Just when it seemed like all the super scary diseases had been discovered—flesh-eating bacteria, brain tapeworms,…

It appears we're on the cusp of a major breakthrough in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. The FDA said yesterday that…

Brace your bladders, ladies. It appears that the bacteria E. coli, which is so fond of invading our sensitive lady…

All this time, you thought the painful curse of a urinary tract infection was simply your body punishing you for…

Researchers in Canada are flummoxed a puzzling set of statistics — despite the fact that most people had a safe sex…

Most of us don't spend too much time thinking about our appendixes, except if they're throbbing with infection and…

‘Tis the season for sinus infections, but next time you get one, you might want to forgo the often unpleasant…

Do you wear contact lenses? According to new data, your eyes are probably cesspools of disgusting ocular germs…

There may be a few people lingering out there still claiming that women are the weaker sex, but science has proved…

It's been thirty years since the discovery of the AIDS virus, and while they've included immeasurable tragedy, there…

Researchers say in rare cases sleeping with pets could lead to contracting chagas disease, cat-scratch disease, or…

• Merck and Co reported today that Gardasil may protect men from HPV-caused infection and external genital lesions.…