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The maggots ate dead tissue surrounding the site of a severe infection, the doctors who treated the man explain

Never share makeup brushes, clean your own every week

Gamers get a new location to battle undead in

Science video explains what measles is, how it affects the body and why you should vaccinate against it

The new HIV variant, discovered in patients in Cuba, progresses to AIDS in just 3 years after infection

Hoping to find new antibiotic and anticancer drugs, Rockefeller University scientists got to work analyzing soil samples

Specialists say smoking reduces blood flow to a wound, messes up the body's natural defense mechanisms

Study finds evidence fat cells living right under the skin are the first responders when bacteria try to invade the body

Scientists say these birds produce an antibiotic that can fight all sorts of microorganisms that make people sick

The young woman shared manicure instruments with a cousin who was eventually found to be HIV-positive

The doctors who treated the girl say she was killed by a rare combination of EV-D68 and Staphylococcus aureus

The lab-made spleen was successfully used to remove as much as 90% of the pathogens present in the blood of rats

The achievement is “one important step on the path toward a permanent cure for AIDS”

The child now has detectable levels of HIV in its body, researchers say

Sparkle Anderson was just three weeks old when she was diagnosed with meningitis

Sarah Greenaway developed a serious infection due to the fingernail glue

The TV host got pink eye during the Olympics after he tried to remove some wrinkles