Antibiotics are the standard course of treatment for Lyme disease — a bacterial infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi that's transmitted to humans through the bite of infected ...

Enjoying the outdoors carries the danger of running into nature’s less-friendly side: toxic plants and animals. As toxicologists at the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Poison Center, we see many ...

Bee stings are not just a painful inconvenience; they are the result of a highly evolved biological defense mechanism. When a bee stings, it injects venom, which contains a complex mixture of proteins ...

This horrifying video is causing serious buzz. Frightening footage captured by an electron microscope shows what happens after a person sustains a bee sting, with the insect’s stinger sawing into ...

The latest buzz in the beauty industry surrounds an ingredient with a sting. Increasingly common in cosmetics and skincare, bee venom has received its fair share of praise and scrutiny in recent ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Bee stings unexpectedly cured a woman’s Lyme disease, even after her body was breaking down from disease ...

Reyah Carlson has been stung by bees more than 25,000 times. On purpose. Carlson is a practitioner of apitherapy, a controversial form of alternative medicine that uses bee venom to treat everything ...

For centuries, the European honeybee has given people honey, wax, propolis, and even venom. Now, scientists are looking beyond the hive’s sweet rewards to explore one of its most potent and surprising ...

Discovered: Bee venom can be used to neutralize HIV; gambling sites seduce people with free trials; dating in middle school is tied to truancy; a 'dirty blizzard' compounded Deepwater Horizon disaster ...

Ongoing investigation into whether bee venom could help treat a certain type of cancer has been making "important progress," the leading researcher has told Newsweek. Experts at the Epigenetics Lab at ...