City officials released a preliminary list of building addresses Friday where cooling towers have tested positive for ...

A second test, which can take up to two weeks, will confirm where the live bacteria are coming from.

Automated quality control using rapid PCR assays is replacing 28-day culture tests, cutting biopharmaceutical lot release ...

Tracing the cause of the infection can be a laborious process.

The toxin behind two outbreaks in seven months is hard to find—and just a handful of labs are equipped to look for it at all ...

Many people will have experienced being unwell with an unknown infection and having to undergo multiple tests to determine the culprit. This sequential process of elimination can be time-consuming and ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has pledged for days to, in the coming days, release a list of addresses linked to the ...

With the number of Legionnaires' disease cases now at 23​, New York City is aggressively testing more than 150 cooling towers ...

The bacteria that grow in water cooling towers are likely the cause of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side ...

Meet the World Changing Ideas pushing the health industry into new frontiers. With the host of challenges facing the healthcare industry—particularly in the U.S.—it can be easy to forget that serious ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...