More than 600,000 teenagers have been opening GCSE and other Level 2 results on Thursday. Most have just finished Year 11, marking the end of a secondary school journey that began in Covid "bubbles" ...

Measles have surged to a record high, with more cases reported this year than any year since the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. This disappointing record comes amid ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs. By Jan Hoffman The message ...

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of later life, defined clinically by motor features (asymmetric bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, and imbalance) and pathologically by neuronal degeneration ...

Hiking and camping fanatics know all too well the risks of a tick bite. Ticks are tiny but carry mighty illnesses, including Lyme disease. They thrive in heavily wooded areas across the U.S. and ...

Chronic wasting disease has been spreading among deer in the United States, which has raised concerns that the fatal neurological illness might make the leap to people. But a recent study suggests ...

Chronic liver disease develops from long-term liver damage over months to years. The most common causes are viral hepatitis and chronically high alcohol consumption. Chronic liver disease is the ...

Think of your immune system like a hardworking security team: Day and night, with zero breaks, it’s scanning for potentially dangerous intruders. And while you mindlessly scroll your social feeds and ...

Sue Gray, 59, has been sick half her life. But it took two decades to confirm why. When Gray was 30 and living with her then-husband in the middle of the woods in upstate New York, she felt a tick on ...

Biodiversity loss, global warming, pollution and the spread of invasive species are making infectious diseases more dangerous to organisms around the world. By Emily Anthes Several large-scale, ...

There’s a lot to be wary of when you’re out exploring in nature—hungry bears, venomous snakes, sudden downpours, your two left feet. But even if you get home relatively unscathed, you’re not in the ...