An article from CBS News reported that a woman diagnosed with a rare drug resistant form of tuberculosis, XDR-TB, traveled extensively putting a significant number of people at risk, while she should have been in isolation. The foreign woman was in the United States for seven weeks before requiring...

According to CBS News, a report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has recognized a new threat posed by ticks called, Borrelia miyamotoi disease (BMD). Although Lyme disease is still the most common disease carried by ticks, BMD is also posing a new found threat as the prevalence of ticks in...

According to Reuters, a study looking at the risk of statins causing memory loss seems to show little indication that there is any correlation between the two. Although .8 percent of people taking statins experienced some type of short term memory loss compared to .2 percent who were not on statins,...