Persistent tooth infection may cause ear and head pain because of the connection between your teeth and the trigeminal nerve.

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

A total of five people have now died amid an outbreak of bacterial pneumonia, which has infected dozens of people in New York City, according to health officials. As of Aug. 19, there have been 108 ...

WE are taught to brush our teeth from a young age for a bright smile and fresh breath. And while those things are true, there is more to it than that. Oral hygiene is also linked to chronic ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WSVN) — A bacterial infection is spreading through Florida’s palm trees. The disease, known as lethal bronzing, is spread by a small insect that sucks sap from other palms and ...

When you have uncontrolled blood sugar, it can affect your health in several ways. High blood sugar levels damage different ...

Two people have died after eating oysters contaminated with flesh-eating bacteria, health officials confirmed, and others have been infected. Both of the fatal cases were traced to Louisiana-harvested ...

A tooth abscess is a surgical problem, not a pharmaceutical one, so we need to stop pretending a bottle of pills can solve a ...

Ten people have died in the U.S. this year, mostly in Florida and Louisiana, from Vibrio vulnificus, a "flesh-eating" bacteria that spreads through seawater and shellfish. Cases of the deadly ...

Arizona cases of a serious antibiotic-resistant infection known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, or CRE, have been rising statewide and are at higher-than-normal levels so far in 2025, state ...