What is urgently needed is a shift from pathogen-specific diagnostics toward pathogen-agnostic diagnostic systems,” write ...

Gottlieb is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former FDA commissioner. McClellan is director of the Duke Margolis Institute for Health Policy and former FDA commissioner and ...

When it comes to infectious diseases, 2026 is shaping up to be a busy and troubling year.

Many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, especially zoonotic diseases such as ebola or new coronaviruses, emerge as the result of intensified human activities such as deforestation, ...

The New York Department of Health announced Monday its launching of a weekly global health update report on infectious diseases and threats to public health. The report, posted on the health ...

Throughout human history, disease outbreaks have emerged and re-emerged. What's different now is that with global travel, outbreaks can move quickly among and between populations. A familiar example ...

Infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about two pathogens in animals that have the potential to trigger the next major health crisis. Researchers warn that influenza D and canine ...

Ten confirmed cases in Barcelona suggest that a rare skin infection may be spreading through sexual networks, prompting ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When we were discussing the ‘cities’ theme ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...