The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

An NUS-based study says 11 species that have bitten humans here can carry 1 or more harmful microbes. Read more at ...

A woman in Beijing who presented to hospital with a foreign body sensation in her right eye was found to be suffering from a parasitic infection ...

In early 2021, a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales began dealing with stomach aches and diarrhoea, which ...

Pink eye is also known as conjunctivitis in some circles. Pink eye is almost always caused by an infection that is viral. Viruses are the most common cause. Likewise, it could be caused by a fungal ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it.

The rising global temperature has been correlated with a number of health impacts, including skin conditions and pest-related diseases. Add eye conditions to that list, researchers from the University ...

A seemingly harmless nap turned into a life-changing ordeal for a Florida man who lost vision in one eye after sleeping with his contact lenses in. While many contact lens users may have done the same ...

We all want to keep our eyes healthy and our vision crisp. Some of your daily habits might be secretly sabotaging your ...

Parasitic infection describes the infection of a host with a particular parasite. Parasites are microorganisms that rely on other host organisms for their own survival. Many parasites do not cause ...

Dealing with red, itchy eyelids? The culprit could be a common mite. This article is sponsored by XDEMVY. Dr. Watson is a paid consultant for Tarsus Pharmaceuticals.

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by asking state public health laboratories to perform additional testing on all patient samples that test ...