Infections happen year-round, but peak whooping cough season lasts from late summer through fall. Pertussis is a cyclical disease, meaning it might spread widely through a community and then disappear ...

Dr. Christopher Chapman and his team at RUSH University Medical Center take a different approach, down the esophagus.

Potentially dangerous staphylococci compete with other bacteria for biotin in the human nasal cavity. This could offer a new ...

Bacteria, viruses and fungi that colonize the body — including some that live directly on eye surfaces — can have an ...

Perioral dermatitis is a red rash that appears around your mouth and nose and causes red, inflamed, swollen bumps on the ...

Wildlife officials are tracking Southeastern myotis bats exposed to the disease and living in a Wake County stormwater system ...