With a background in biomedical informatics, Neal Goldstein focuses on computational approaches in complex data settings to understand infectious disease transmission among vulnerable populations ...

Infectious diseases are disorders that are caused by organisms ... With other agents, infection can be transmitted through the air. The route of transmission of infectious agents is clearly an ...

President Trump’s sweeping spending freeze on U.S. foreign aid has immediate health consequences, writes Gavin Yamey.

Waterborne transmission is part of a cultural vector ... But in terms of human diseases, generally it's in our interest to have the disease organisms be as mild as possible. What we can do depends ...

Researchers monitored indoor air quality in the buffet, gym, bar, restaurant, pub, theater and standard double occupancy cabins.

The House passed a bill preventing government agencies from mandating the use of masks to slow the spread of an infectious ...

Dr. Michael Osterholm says that the primary kind of birds impacted by the flu is migratory waterfowl, like geese and ducks, ...

In contrast, transmission of sexually transmitted pathogens (assuming rates of sexual contact don't necessarily increase with host density) and some vector-borne diseases is thought to be ...

As fires blanket growing swathes of the West, scientists are beginning to understand more about how their smoke affects the transmission and severity ... to smoke could more easily succumb to ...

Its 18 faculty members are conducting numerous NIH and industry sponsored studies in all areas of infectious disease. Major research interests include the following: Pediatric HIV infection - ...