Many women believe public toilets or tight pants cause UTIs, but that’s a myth. So what really leads to recurrent infections, and how can they be treated without antibiotics?

For millions of people living with long COVID, symptoms like shortness of breath, mental fog, and deep fatigue continue long ...

A recent study published in the journal Immunology analyzed whether sex mattered in the immune response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has ...

Symptoms of a sinus infection include fever, headache, congestion, runny nose, pus in the nasal cavity and tooth pain. But while it’s easy to blame the weather for your sinus infection, there are ...

In fungal infections, invasive fungi grow in or on your body. Many types of fungi occur naturally in your body in small amounts. Some infections occur when these fungi grow out of control while other ...

For millions suffering from long COVID, their persistent breathlessness, brain fog and fatigue remain a maddening mystery, but a group of leading microbiologists think they may have cracked the case.

Sepsis can be described as a very dangerous medical condition triggered by an immune system response. In most cases of ...

If you’ve had a sore throat from time to time or blisters around your mouth or nose, chances are you’ve had a group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. Group A streptococcus is the bacteria that causes ...

Editor's Note: We at PS recognize that people of many genders and identities have vaginas. For this particular story, we interviewed experts who generally referred to people who experience vaginal ...

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