Do you believe that germs cause disease?’ — the questions health leaders want senators to ask RFK Jr. - Kennedy, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Joseph Lister was able to make a much more ...

Everyone harbors disease germs, yet not everyone is sick. This is ascribed to "resistance," suggesting that germs are less important in disease than other factors affecting the condition of the host ...

The journey of pasteurization is one of science's most significant public health triumphs, and few know that it was ...

Pasteur went on to argue that this same bacteria could cause disease. To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s heels… Oh ja!

The late 19th century ushered in the “germ theory” of disease, giving personal protective gear new significance. After Louis Pasteur demonstrated that germs couldn’t spontaneously generate, Robert ...

Diseases were untreatable, sometimes even unrecognized. Without a germ theory of disease, people did not take precautions to prevent the spread of infections. But the Industrial Revolution ...

Senators who grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his controversial medical claims following his nomination to be US health ...