Snacks: Let's discover Maghrebian gastronomy for Ramadan with these delicious msemmen, crunchy, melt-in-your-mouth pancakes ...

Hummingbirds run on sugar, turning nectar into pure motion. Wings can beat 80 to 90 times per second, so a missed meal is not a small problem. In the wild, that fuel comes from wildflowers. As native ...

Sexually transmitted ringworm, known as trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, or TMVII, is a fungus that infects the skin ...

Unlike most fungi that cause ringworm, TMVII is spread through close sexual contact and is more likely to cause inflammatory rashes that can lead to permanent scarring.

Board-certified and Cincinnati-based dermatologist Dr. Alexandra Bowles says there’s a reason your foot and toenail fungus is so persistent and may seem impossible to eliminate for good. “These ...

A new study by researchers at Kiel University and MPI-EvolBio describes how more efficient protein production drives the adaptation of fungi to the human body, potentially turning previously harmless ...

A dad-of-two nearly lost his tongue after a small lump under his jaw turned out to be cancer. Anthony Perriam saw his GP after feeling the lump for the first time and within weeks he had been ...

If you ever want to pull out the big guns in a pub quiz, then do I have a fact for you! Contrary to popular belief, the biggest organism in the world is not the blue whale. Nor is it the giant sequoia ...

Artificial nails are a style staple in today’s world, but they can lead to a concerning outcome — fungal infection. Onychomycosis is a term for fungal nail infections, which typically develop on ...

I very much doubt it. The yeast infection candida is being blamed by many people for an amazing array of symptoms at the moment, such as tiredness, irritable bowel syndrome, and even headaches.

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.