New research indicates southern right whales can adjust their diet when preferred food sources become scarce. Studying whale ...

About half a million samples are collected from over-50s in Scotland each year in a highly successful NHS program that significantly boosts early cancer detection. But only a tiny amount of the ...

Experts explain how health officials investigate foodborne illnesses amid a second outbreak of cyclosporiasis.

Community health volunteers travel across remote northern Kenya to detect poliovirus before it can spread.

Hundreds of people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, which infects the small intestine and is spread by ...

An outbreak of diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis has prompted warnings from experts about how to clean and prepare fruits and ...

Scientists long believed that these whales, which swim throughout the Southern Hemisphere, mainly feasted on krill and small ...

A microscopic parasite is making thousands of Americans sick this summer, and public health officials are still figuring out ...

Cyclospora can cause severe, "explosive" diarrhea, fatigue and stomach cramps that can persist for weeks if left untreated.

The hard, and nauseating, truth about cyclospora is that it’s spread through human feces. Over decades of research, ...

Scientists from a handful of universities across the country have made innovative use of satellite images from NASA to determine the diet of Antarctic Adélie penguins across the continent by studying ...

Penguin poo, or guano, is a popular resource. Nests for penguin eggs are bowl-shaped depressions that the parents hollow into piles of guano and soil. And farmers love penguin guano for its rich ...