A team says erythritol, a keto-friendly sweetener, may be linked to a higher risk of strokes and heart disease, but more research is needed.
Cases of extensively drug-resistant Shigella are becoming more common in the U.S., while an outbreak in Cape Verde has sickened hundreds of tourists.
The rare Heartland virus likely killed a man in 2021, in the first case traced to the Maryland and Virginia area.
A girl and her father in Cambodia tested positive for H5N1. The child's death marks the second human death linked to an ongoing surge in animal cases.
Years after it said it would look into the issue, the FDA is set to rule that plant-based milks can still be called milk.
Many foods allowed to be called healthy will likely lose that label under the FDA's proposed new regulations, while some previously maligned foods will gain it.
Over 200 travelers from a dozen countries, including the U.S., contracted the bacteria while visiting the island country of Cape Verde, off the coast of Africa.
The Düsseldorf patient is the fifth suspected HIV cure, following a stem cell transplant from a donor genetically resistant to the virus.
At least 9 people have died from the Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in Equatorial Guinea's first known outbreak of the disease, according to the WHO.
Only around 200 cases of brain-eating Balamuthia mandrillaris have been documented worldwide, but the infection is 90% fatal.
Emory University researchers need volunteers for a human challenge trial of their experimental vaccine against Shigella , the main cause of dysentery.
Avian influenza has recently been recorded spreading among minks and other mammals. The World Health Organization has now acknowledged that could be very bad.
This may be the first reported case of foreign accent syndrome caused by this particular form of cancer, the man's doctors say.
For more than a year, a woman reportedly refused to obey court orders to stay at home and exposed others to her active TB infection.
In animal experiments, the vaccine prevented severe infections and deaths from three fungi that regularly sicken people.
Scientists found that U.S. veterans given vitamin D were less likely to attempt suicide, but the study has limitations.
Faux-pharmaceuticals, passed off as Adderall or painkillers like oxycodone, were found to contain fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Zombie-creating fungi are an unlikely possibility, but a warmer world will make fungi more of a threat.
At least 55 people have caught the same drug-resistant strain of bacteria, with one death and others being hospitalized or losing sight as a result.
The infected cow was on a Dutch farm, and authorities say it didn't enter the food chain. Other animals are now being tested.
