The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These ...

Although these conditions appear clinically distinct, they share a common feature: an overactive immune response to otherwise ...

Quick Take If you share your home with a dog or cat, you also share it with invisible commuters: parasites looking for a warm ...

At around 5 a.m. Wednesday, a broken valve at a pump station caused sewage to leak out of one of the maintenance holes where the San Diego River meets Ocean Beach’s Dog Beach, San Diego County ...

Some people online believe many of us have dangerous parasites in our gut and need to flush them out with herbal supplements.

Most illnesses cannot jump between humans and dogs. However, there is a select few that, if you're not careful, can cross ...

For decades, scientists used a mirror experiment to explore whether animals could recognize themselves. In that test, ...

Dog owners are being urged to check their pets after walks now that we are entering tick season in the UK.

It seems like everyone here in The County has been dealing with head colds, flu, bronchitis and even some people have battled pneumonia.

A lot of dog behavior gets brushed aside because it looks funny, harmless, or easy to explain away in... The post The dog ...

In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus was condemned by the god Zeus to spend eternity rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it ...

Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in partnership with Baylor College of ...