Most people are well aware that fibre is a nutrient we want to eat enough of. Fewer know that there are two distinct types: soluble fibre and insoluble fibre. Both play different but equally valuable ...

The additives added to processed food to keep it fresher for longer might be having an unexpected effect on the health of the microbes in our guts.

Flesh-eating bacteria entered Brian Roush's body through a scratch on his ankle gofundme Brian Roush, 62, was celebrating in the Bahamas with his girlfriend over New Year’s, when he scraped his ankle ...

After scraping his ankle on vacation in the Bahamas, a Florida man ended up with a devastating case of the flesh-eating disease — and doctors gave him just 10% chance of surviving. Brian Roush, 62, ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — One Tampa, Florida, family is trying to get their loved one back home after he contracted a flesh-eating disease while overseas in the Bahamas. Family members said the 62-year-old ...

“If it wasn't for the help of this hospital, I would definitely be dead," said Peter Atkinson 6 abc Philadelphia/YouTube Peter Atkinson was hospitalized with necrotizing fasciitis, a rare flesh-eating ...

Peter Atkinson was hospitalized with necrotizing fasciitis, a rare flesh-eating bacteria that can be deadly in about 1 in 5 patients The 49-year-old developed sepsis and his kidneys began to fail ...

GULF COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Ben West never imagined a family fishing trip would turn into a fight for survival. In August, West contracted Vibrio vulnificus — commonly known as flesh-eating ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- A Montgomery County business owner is continuing to recover in the hospital after being diagnosed with a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection, a medical emergency that has ...

Climate change is fueling an increasing number of marine heat waves across the globe. When this intensifying heat is coupled with pollution — especially sewage, nitrogen fertilizer agricultural runoff ...