Dr. Jessica Shepherd, chief medical officer for Hers, joins ABC News Live to discuss the results of the president’s physical.

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Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, ...

But folklore is stubborn, capable of resisting even the most compelling facts. By 1925, when Popular Science reported the ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the ...

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety ... these signals can only be detected by looking at the cells under a microscope or similarly sensitive lab equipment, making them impractical ...