Image credit Millions of people throughout the world are suffering from oral and dental health difficulties, many of wh ...

Jackie Duda's terrifying ordeal began in May, 2021. Parts of it—the anxiety, the flashbacks—continue to live with her today. Her enemy in this near-lethal fight: sepsis; something she knew little ...

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Smokers had higher levels of harmful bacteria – like Fusobacterium, Campylobacter and Tannerella forsythia – in their mouths.

You step on a nail, slice your leg, you get an open wound and the bacteria gets in,” said an infectious disease expert.

Scientists identified more than 600 viruses in samples taken from bathrooms in the United States. The viruses infect bacteria ...

"I had an ear infection, a nose infection – my body wasn't fighting infections." The father-of-two then had suspected appendicitis. "I was rushed to hospital overnight, woke up in hospital ...

Research explores how excessive sugar consumption can drive systemic inflammation, disrupt the gut and oral microbiomes, and ...

But once an infection with bacteria that has become resistant ... “I was fighting for my life,” he said. After five months in hospital, he was sent home, but remained bedridden.