A urethral swab screens for many types of infection. A provider quickly collects a sample by inserting a special Q-tip into ...

Think of it as a luxury V8-Supercars-for-the-road comparison. The HSV Senator Signature and the Volvo S60 Polestar deliver performance, practicality and comfort in very high levels. They both fall ...

The primary outcome was death from any cause by 90 days after diagnosis of the bloodstream infection, with a noninferiority margin of 4 percentage points. Across 74 hospitals in seven countries ...

The bacterial infection, known as Bartonella quintana, or trench fever as it was called during World War I, lives in the feces of body lice and can cause skin lesions, fever and bone pain.

As a woman (and anyone with a vulva), a yeast infection is one of the most uncomfortable things we can experience. It's a very common type of infection — affecting up to 75% of women at some poi ...

Antibiotics work by killing bacteria or preventing them from growing and multiplying. Although antibiotics are used to treat infections, a question often asked is whether antibiotics can cause yeast ...

Pneumonia is an infection of one or both lungs caused by bacteria, a virus, or a fungus. It causes inflammation and fluid build-up in the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs. Bacterial and viral ...