Infectious Disease

Deaths during the first year of the pandemic were driven by COVID-19 and other causes, with a surprising increase found in preventable "deaths of despair" caused by overdose, alcohol use and malnutrition.

When a healthy 20-year-old in Rockland County, New York, presented in an emergency room earlier this year with sudden leg paralysis, the diagnosis of polio ...

In a new study, Mayo Clinic in Florida researchers and collaborators have found that the antiviral medication Paxlovid reduces the risk of hospitalization in patients ...

Researchers say a patient's routinely assessed immune profile on the first day of hospitalization might provide insights for treating serious cases of COVID-19. A study ...

Where you live may affect whether you receive the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine, suggests a new study published in the journal Vaccine. The first human papillomavirus (HPV) ...

COVID-19 vaccine are bringing nanoparticle bioengineering technology into the news. But what are nanoparticles? What are nanoparticle vaccines? And how could one vaccine provide immunity ...

Outbreaks of COVID-19 infection spread while SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, evolves and circulates around the world. Given time, genetic mutations occur in the ...

Two years ago on Dec. 12, a group of people were infected and sickened from a virus that had never been known to infect humans. ...

In a new publication, Mayo researchers and collaborators report a previously unknown interaction between adenovirus vectored vaccines and a protein released by platelets that may ...

COVID-19 pills may limit severe disease, but vaccination is still the best option.Over the past two months, data on two pills to treat COVID-19 became ...