2+ hour, 18+ min ago   (148+ words) BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Department of Health officials confirmed a Louisiana resident contracted a rare Naegleria fowleri infection, most likely while swimming in Lake Claiborne in Claiborne Parish. Naegleria fowleri, known as a brain-eating amoeba, causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (42+ words) The reported total may continue rising because the CDC estimates there can be a reporting delay of about six weeks between the beginning of illness and a case... AI-generated summary — triage, not the story; the byline above links out to…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago   (505+ words) The latest update from federal health officials shows 15,716 cases of laboratory-confirmed cyclosporiasis have been acquired in the U.S. since May 1. An additional 11,841 cases are still under investigation before potentially being added to the total count, according to an Aug. 18 update from…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (705+ words) Missouri has now recorded 1,950 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis, a 24 percent increase from the previous week, according to figures released Sunday afternoon by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Missouri typically logs about a dozen cases of cyclosporiasis per…...

4+ hour, 47+ min ago   (410+ words) The international clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that cefazolin was noninferior to traditional antistaphylococcal penicillins (ASPs), such as cloxacillin and flucloxacillin, for treating methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia. Cefazolin was also associated with a…...

5+ hour, 18+ min ago   (355+ words) The work was led by corresponding authors Edoardo Scarpa and Loris Rizzello at the National Institute of Molecular Genetics "Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi" (INGM) and the University of Milan's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in collaboration with the Emerging Bacterial Pathogens…...

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (205+ words) Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have received more than $4.6 million in federal funding to study how harmful bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and how they interact with the body during infection. By understanding how bacteria adapt under…...

10+ hour, 45+ min ago   (257+ words) A Mercer County woman is suing Taco Bell and Taylor Farms, saying the companies were negligent after a meal she purchased in July left her hospitalized with a cyclosporiasis infection. Thousands of cases of cyclosporiasis have been confirmed across 47 states,…...

6+ hour, 59+ min ago   (384+ words) Anita Shukla, an Indian American professor at the Brown University School of Engineering, has won a 2026 Division of Research Seed Program award for her project to explore new strategies for life threatening fungal infections. Fungal infections caused by Candida albicans…...

7+ hour, 57+ min ago   (649+ words) You can eat well, exercise and feel perfectly fine, yet still have intestinal worms. A doctor explains why these infections often go unnoticed and the subtle signs you should not ignore A person can eat normally, go to work, exercise…...