Doctors are debating if the itchy skin disease is becoming resistant to its main treatment, but there could be other factors ...

Pharmacies have seen a rise in scabies medication sales since fall and a family doctor says cases have increased in recent ...

The ‘serial fantasist’ has been spared jail after successfully appealing his sentence for perjury. The ‘serial fantasist’ has been spared jail after successfully appealing his sentence for perjury.

Cases of histoplasmosis are surging in Tennessee as officials race to find the source of the outbreak ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

“My life is unfortunately never going to be what it was,” said Emily McAllister ...

A distinct set of microbes has been identified in people with obesity, which might help spot and treat the condition early – ...

NHS experts warn Vitamin D users to stop high doses after overdose cases, urging people to follow guidance and watch for ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...