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The Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson's drug Simponi for patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory disease affec...
Child deaths from pneumonia and severe diarrhea, mainly among the poor in Africa and South Asia, could be virtually eliminated by 2025 under an "integrated" strategy...
We may not like to bring it up at cocktail parties (or especially over dinner), but let's be honest: One of our number-one health concerns has to do with going numbe...
Certain types of antidepressants may put people at an increased risk for developing a deadly superbug infection, a new study suggested.Researchers from the Universit...
Even under the best circumstances, unpasteurized milk can make people sick, a new report concludes.In one of the biggest outbreaks of campylobacter bacteria seen nat...
As travel season begins to warm up, and millions of people hit the airways and highways, knowing how to prepare yourself from a health standpoint is part of being sa...
Montezuma's Revenge lands frequent flier in slammer
We were all very excited when Clay Rawson, head of Specials Development, assigned us to go to Southern Mexico to investigate "The Mystery of the Maya," as part of ou...
It may sound like the most unappealing treatment available, but a small new study has concluded that inserting fecal material from a healthy person into the gut of s...
A nasty fungus seems to have sex while it invades its human host.The fungus causes chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients and travelers. The ...
Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler said that the Paraguay shower fall that knocked his teeth out and cut his face was caused by food poisoning not a drug relapse, in a...
The Medicine Hunter, Chris Kilham, gives some home remedies for dealing with diarrhea
A new vaccine to prevent traveler's diarrhea
The Indian government announced Tuesday the development of a new low-cost vaccine proven effective against a diarrhea-causing virus that is one of the leading causes...
In some corners of the world, one wrong sip can put a serious cramp in your travel plans. Try these common-sense steps to prevent--and bounce back from--the ultimate...
Scientists have long known that Crohn's patients – even when they are in remission – suffer from fatigue and low quality of life.So when Tara Raftery, a research die...
Fierce street fighting in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border has killed at least 28 elite members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, activists said Monday, a...
Can anyone tell me with a degree of certainty how many Americans get sick each year from food poisoning? According to the Centers for Disease Control, 50 million Ame...
There's poop in public pools, according to a new report.Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found genetic material from E. coli bacte...