When someone asks me to name the wildlife in New York City, I immediately think of pigeons and rats. Maybe the occasional ...

Public health has its own bracket of champions: breakthroughs that eliminated deadly diseases, revolutionized surgery, and opened entirely new doors in medicine. From vaccines to mRNA technology, ...

Scientists have created a genomic blueprint for Aeromonas bacteria, which can cause antibiotic-resistant diarrheal disease—with symptoms often misidentified as cholera—in humans and animals.

Clinician-scientist Swee Sen Kwek began his career with ambitions rooted in lab research, not hospital clinics. On a scholarship, he studied microbiology and immunology at the University of ...

In his book A Treatise on the Stomach and Its Trials (c. 1865), the British pharmacist James Crossley Eno wrote that “one of the most uncomfortable beings on earth is a Dyspeptic. To most other ...