Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Forecasting antibiotic resistance with a 'weather map' of local data

The resistance that infectious microbes have to antibiotics makes it difficult for physicians to confidently select the right drug to treat an infection. And that resistance is dynamic: It changes from year to year and varies ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New UN "atlas" links climate change, health

(AP)—Two U.N. agencies have mapped the intersection of health and climate in an age of global warming, showing that there are spikes in meningitis when dust storms hit and outbreaks of dengue fever when hard rains come.