The president is taking a chainsaw to our public health infrastructure—and people will die as a result.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report the life-shortening blood disease sickle cell anemia affects about ...

Although smoking rates in the UK are falling, the country's growing population means roughly 6.4million Brits are estimated ...

A rapid blood test could speed treatment for people who have suffered a stroke related to brain bleeding, a new study says.

The virus has already infected ten people since the nation officially announced the outbreak last week. Of these infections ...

The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to ...

In lab experiments, a protein found in the Sydney rock oyster made some antibiotics more effective and killed several types ...

Your blood also contains white blood cells. These larger cells help the body fight infection. And your blood contains cells even smaller than red blood cells called platelets. These help the blood ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated by researchers at ...

Eating foods high in key nutrients, including iron, folic acid, and vitamin B12, and limiting alcohol may help increase your red blood cell count. Red blood cells are the most common cells in ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it.