Urinary tract infections happen often, affecting an estimated 60% of women and 20% of men in their lifetimes.

Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River ...

A University of Alberta research team has identified a new drug target to treat harmful E. coli bacteria—which cause nearly ...

An ecological crisis of "historic proportion" is underway in the Potomac River after a massive sewer pipe collapse north of ...

Bioengineered E. coli bacteria can now produce a group of compounds with anticancer, anti-HIV, antidiabetic and anti-inflammatory activities. The Kobe University achievement is the result of a ...

DC officials insist the high levels are not "necessarily related to the spill" that sent 243 million gallons of wastewater ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections, with catheter-associated UTIs accounting for ...

Water quality samples taken by DC Water show elevated levels of E. Coli across multiple sample areas, including one taken from the Anacostia River.