Every outbreak brought more evidence of airborne transmission. A civil engineer found that a serious outbreak of H5N1 in a ...

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 ...

“Germy places in your bedroom are obviously going to be any high-touch surfaces, so your light switches and your door handles ...

Quarantines and the evacuation of places of disease have been standard measures globally to contain epidemics for centuries, ...

Another day, another series of alarming claims from Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the current head of Health and Human Services. This ...

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences celebrated its most recent graduates during its 179th commencement on May 2.

The idea that individuals are intrinsically linked to each other has gained traction over the last few years, but the invisible string theory has existed for much longer. With ties to ancient ...

Apparently, according to Kennedy, germ theory wasn't based on actual evidence but instead got popular because it "[mimicked] the traditional explanation for disease—demon possession—giving it ...

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 ...

On a bad day, you may not have the strength to even brush your teeth. In a blog titled “The Spoon Theory,” Christine Miserandino describes how she showed her friend what it’s like to have lupus.