In 1926 medical mystery, Dickinson watched five nuns fall one by one — and feared the cause could be contagious, criminal or ...

Subacute sclerosing pan-encephalitis (SSPE) is a rare complication of the measles affecting just 1 in 50,000 cases – but it ...

South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated ...

Sources at the private hospital in Barasat said the woman nurse was among the two nursing staff members infected with Nipah and had been under treatment for several weeks. She had tested negative for ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn't been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and he suddenly had four seizures. The doctors are worried ...

A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for encephalitis (brain inflammation), caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not ...

The findings mark the first documented detection of bat-origin orthoreovirus—a kind of double-stranded RNA virus—in human cases of acute respiratory illness and encephalitis in Bangladesh. The study ...

A proposal from the Trump administration would exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees, a move that has drawn outcry from nursing advocates, who warn it could worsen the nation's nurse ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Roughly 30% of hospital admissions for encephalitis required repeat lumbar punctures. Diagnostic uncertainty is ...

Larimer County health officials have discovered St. Louis encephalitis virus in an isolated pool of tested mosquitoes found in northeast Fort Collins, the first time such a discovery has been made in ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with researchers in Nepal, have found that waning immunity to Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) may increase the risk of more severe dengue ...