Tonsillitis itself is not contagious. However, “the viruses and bacteria that cause tonsillitis are highly contagious and can ...

Strep is different from a regular sore throat because it’s caused by bacteria, not a virus. Find a symptom comparison chart ...

While a sore throat can be a side effect of many other illnesses, it's also the most telling symptom of strep.

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing hand foot and mouth, flu and strep throat this week. WellSpan Pediatric ...

“Strep throat is the usual suspect,” she says. Other signs of strep throat include pain when swallowing, swollen tonsils and lymph nodes, tiny red spots on the roof of the mouth and fever. Related: ...

Group A strep—the Streptococcus bacterium that causes strep throat—is the most common bacterial cause of sore throat. It accounts for 15% of sore throats in adults and up to 30% in children and ...

"It's exciting to identify a system like this because they're rarely found, but they may be more common than current tallies suggest." Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics reports the flu, strep throat and hand, foot and mouth this week. At Penn State Health ...

The regular season required one extra day and two playoff-clinching wins, as both the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves secured their playoff spots on Monday. The teams split their doubleheader ...

DETROIT — How did the Detroit Tigers do it? It’s a question that has persisted for the majority of September. What started as a jovial story, a team with whimsical dreams of doing the ...

India has ascended 42 positions in the Global Innovation Index (GII) since 2015 and now ranks 39th out of 133 economies evaluated. The latest GII report, released on Thursday, September 27, showed ...

"You mention them, and I get a lump in my throat," she stated. But looking back on how she found Norman, Jennifer revealed that she actually first saw him decades ago, when he happened to make an ...