Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson sparked fierce debate after an involuntary outburst of offensive language at the BAFTAs as a result of coprolalia, a rare, misunderstood symptom of Tourette syndrom ...

A charity has called for greater awareness of the signs of brain inflammation, after a 12-year-old girl took her own life ...

A novel quantitative PET- and MRI-based imaging approach can objectively identify a recently recognized type of ...

February 22 marks World Encephalitis Day, helping to raise awareness of a disease many don't know about.

“All I could think of was that I was going to die,” said Schayene Silva, who believes mold exposure might have contributed to her disease Schayene Silva Schayene Silva started experiencing ...

Sophie Ella contracted encephalitis, inflammation of the brain, at the beginning of the covid pandemic, which resulted in a four-month hospital stay ...

A straightforward case of measles is nasty—but the disease’s complications are even worse. One of those complications has been confirmed in the ongoing, record-breaking measles outbreak in South ...

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, state epidemiologist Linda ...

The ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina is causing serious, even life-threatening, health issues for some unfortunate children. This week, the South Carolina Department of Public Health issued ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health, parenting, and general health and ...

The University of Florida reported two measles cases on its campus on Feb. 5. Health officials are conducting contact tracing for two classes where individuals may have been exposed. These are the ...

KOLKATA: One of the two nurses infected by the Nipah virus in West Bengal has died after prolonged treatment at a private hospital in North 24 Parganas district. The nurse had been on life support ...