The first new antibiotic for UTIs in nearly 30 years has been approved by regulators. Gepotidacin, also known as Blujepa, is ...

Researchers at the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute have identified a previously unknown type of immune system memory B cell (MBC) that can cause poor antibody responses in chronic ...

Individuals with chronic, untreated hepatitis C virus infection may be at greater risk for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, ...

A new rapid test for hepatitis C could help identify many more patients who could be cured of the deadly disease, but its use ...

Research from the Buck Institute and Stanford University suggests that chronic viral infections have a profound and lasting impact on the human immune system in ways that are similar to those seen ...

You’ve heard of long Covid, a condition in which the acute infection subsides but troubling symptoms persist. Less well known is chronic Covid: The virus just doesn’t leave, sometimes staying in ...

Long COVID has lingered as one of the most unsettling legacies of the pandemic, a condition that can derail lives long after ...

This article is part of an ongoing series investigating the link between chronic infections and the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants. Here, we give an overview of a novel preprint by the Grubaugh ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, said he will prioritize preventing chronic disease, shifting funding from vaccine and infectious disease ...

A recent study in mice has uncovered that during chronic viral infection, a protein called BMI-1 gets turned on too early in B cells and messes up the delicate balance of gene expression, resulting in ...