Norovirus, sometimes called the “winter vomiting disease” or “two-bucket disease” — because it causes both vomiting and ...

Nevertheless, all these forces for health failed last fortnight to prevent an epidemic of virulent diarrhea from striking into the nursery of Chicago’s St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, an institution ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of outbreaks reported this year exceeds previous years ...

Leslee Cohen-Lavin and her family were feeling pretty good just before the holidays. “Then all of a sudden, we each went down ...

The case was published Tuesday in a special edition of the New England Journal of Medicine that explored H5N1 cases from 2024 ...

Paradoxical diarrhea happens when loose, watery stool finds a way around hardened, impacted stool in your colon and leaks from your anus. Also called overflow diarrhea, it’s often a symptom of a ...

A 13-year-old Canadian girl recovered after being hospitalized in critical condition with H5N1 avian influenza, researchers ...

Common and highly contagious illnesses are reaching several-month highs. Norovirus has almost reached a several-year record.

Diarrhea is an acute condition that leads to frequent loose or watery stools. People with diarrhea are less able to absorb nutrients or water in the intestines. If diarrhea persists, it can cause ...

Most people think of diarrhea as an illness when they have more frequent, loose, watery stools. Almost everyone has it at some point. In developing countries, where illnesses that cause diarrhea ...

When the New Year's ball is about to drop, your dog may already be hiding under your furniture. Fireworks can be traumatic ...

With chronic or severe diarrhea, the burning pain can last from several minutes to hours after a bowel movement depending on how severely the tissues are injured. If an anal fissure occurs, the pain ...