With food preparation and meat consumption increasing during the festive season, Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) has cautioned that improper handling of food can expose families to food contamination ...

Winter's chill poses a hidden threat to kidney health, increasing the risk of dehydration, reduced blood flow and infections ...

Consumers are urged to destroy the impacted products, which pose a salmonella risk, and not send them back to the distributor ...

Common cold, flu and COVID-19 symptoms and cases can spike during the year-ending holidays, according to Johns Hopkins winter ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

Thinking about using an at-home antibiotic kit? Before you do, learn why self-treating could put your health—and the ...

From vitamin C to your microbiome and mindset, the latest science of immunity is often counterintuitive. Here's how to give ...

Vitamin C may help shorten how long cold symptoms last and their severity when used before cold symptoms start, but not after a cold begins.

It's a problem that's made its way through pig farms around the world for decades, with no clear cause or solution. But new research from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has identified the ...

A toxin produced by bacteria found in dirty water kills off immune cells in the lining of the colon, meaning people whose guts are colonised by these bacteria are much more likely to develop a ...

This time of year, there are a number of viruses doing the rounds, and it can be hard to dodge the dreaded flu or common cold. If you are unlucky enough to get struck down with illness, you will ...

Health care providers are in a constant battle with bacteria, and must reach for new weapons whenever they adapt and drugs no longer work on them. But those antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming ...