Science & Health

Yes, you can become intoxicated from consuming hand sanitizer because many formulations contain high concentrations of ethanol or isopropanol, the same types of alcohol found in...

‘Patient zero’ is widely used to mean the first human case of an emerging infection in a population or region. In the context of COVID-19 in the United States, it refers to...

On December 31, 2020, the United Kingdom authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, and days later Margaret Keenan became the first person to receive it outside a clinical...

H5N1 is a subtype of influenza A virus that primarily circulates in wild birds and poultry. Since the late 1990s, it has drawn attention because it occasionally infects humans a...

A fatal bee sting is rare but serious, typically resulting from a severe allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis. In anaphylaxis, the immune system releases a surge of chemicals...

The American Heart Association melatonin study examined whether higher nighttime melatonin levels are associated with lower long term risks of cardiovascular and metabolic disea...

In typical human biology, a man (someone assigned male at birth and living as a man) cannot become pregnant because pregnancy requires a uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries to...

Brain-eating amoeba in the ocean is an understandable concern, but infection risk is very low and limited to specific conditions. The organism Naegleria fowleri, which causes pr...

In the Missouri brain-eating amoeba case, a resident died after infection with Naegleria fowleri, a free-living amoeba found in warm freshwater that can cause a rare and severe...

Brain-eating amoeba refers to Naegleria fowleri , a single-celled microbe found in warm freshwater that can cause a rare but severe brain infection called primary amebic meningo...