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

When you don’t believe in germ theory, the world is your oyster—or maybe your bathtub. Over the weekend, America's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared pictures on social media ...

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The Germ Theory of Medicine is less than 100 years old, and before this shift in thinking on disease, past humans developed some very interesting ideas around medicine. Interestingly, some of them ...

Germ theory also knocks back a lesser-known idea called the terrain theory, which we've covered before. This is a somewhat ill-defined theory that generally suggests diseases stem from imbalances ...

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 ...

To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s heels… Oh ja! About a decade after Pasteur had first concocted Germ theory, Koch took the next ...

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 ...