Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now ...

Your kitchen is dirtier than your bathroom. Not by a little; by a lot. According to science, these are the 10 germiest and ...

Balance must be maintained among the trillions of microbes that live in the gastrointestinal tract. The gut microbiome has to host enough beneficial microbes to help control the levels of potentially ...

Your bed is your sanctuary, a place where you rest, recover and rejuvenate. But what if the very place you consider a safe haven is actually a breeding ground for bacteria, viruses and germs? Many ...

Your 99.9% germ-free habits may be hurting long-term immunity. Here is what the hygiene hypothesis says about how these ...