Over the weekend, America's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared pictures on social media of himself fully ...

A chapter in JFK Jr.'s book about germ theory has shed new light on just why U.S. health policy is being changed.

In "So Very Small," author Thomas Levenson recounts the complex history of how humans came to discover germs and the ...

A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a ...

"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares.

Louis Pasteur’s breakthrough discoveries unlocked the world of microscopic organisms that live inside our bodies.

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Joseph Lister was able to make a much more ...

Germ theory wasn't accepted throughout history, but once it was, it paved the way to vaccines that could prevent disease by stopping germs in their tracks. | Credit: Jackyenjoyphotography via ...

Pasteur, who was also a pharmacist and microbiologist, would eventually gain worldwide renown for his contributions to germ theory, the discovery of vaccines and the process that bears his name ...