Scientists have zeroed in on a critical weak spot behind a rare but devastating brain autoimmune disorder often known as ...

The British Parliament Health Select Committee chair called for a review of warnings for dopamine agonists for restless leg syndrome and other disorders, as hundreds of patients told the BBC how the ...

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 ...

A Florida teen is accused of intentionally setting his friend on fire, throwing gasoline on the boy as his peers laughed and filmed the horrifying prank. Bradey Ming, 17, was arrested for felony ...

CHICAGO — The woman who was set on fire while on a Chicago Transit Authority train has been discharged from the hospital after more than two months. On Nov. 17, Bethany MaGee, 26, was riding the Blue ...

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 ...

JOHN, I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. YEAH, YOU KNOW, HE THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA IN THE MOMENT. DIDN’T THINK THE HOUSE WOULD CATCH ON FIRE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE TONIGHT. ED BEHIND US.

Portland scientists say they have finally pinned down where a notorious set of “brain on fire” antibodies latch onto brain cells, and they did it at almost atom-by-atom detail. A team at Oregon Health ...

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 ...

OREGON, USA — Nearly two decades after first being identified, a rare and life-threatening brain-inflammation disease may soon have new treatment candidates. The disorder, called anti-NMDA ...