Kennedy, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will face two Senate committee ...

Carl Zimmer’s new book dives into aerobiology and the reasons humans seem unwilling to confront airborne threats ...

Everyone harbors disease germs, yet not everyone is sick. This is ascribed to "resistance," suggesting that germs are less important in disease than other factors affecting the condition of the host ...

Diseases were untreatable, sometimes even unrecognized. Without a germ theory of disease, people did not take precautions to prevent the spread of infections. But the Industrial Revolution ...

To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s heels… Oh ja! About a decade after Pasteur had first concocted Germ theory, Koch took the next ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Joseph Lister was able to make a much more ...