The Latest Breaking News from Disease

Rare diseases are those debilitating conditions that occur infrequently in a population, and very few of them have approved treatments. Rare Diseases Day is observed on February 29.

In a small-scale study, researchers examined how engaging in a simple exercise together such as tandem cycling could benefit a patient who suffers from Parkinson's disease and their respective caretakers.

Measles was declared eradicated in the US in 2000 when vaccination rates effectively eliminated the disease.

Coined by the World Health Organization to denote a hypothetical future pandemic, "Disease X" is at the center of a blizzard of misinformation that American conspiracy theorists are amplifying -- and profiting from.

Cycas circinalis, Eenthu Pana in Kerala, faces extinction due to a fast-spreading disease, requiring urgent research and action.

The state is in the grip of a measles outbreak, yet Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general, continues to ignore medical science to stop it

Australians are being urged to talk to their doctor about their risk of shingles, with one in three people expected to develop the disease in their lifetime.

Beloved actor and comedian Richard Lewis passes away at 76 due to cardiopulmonary arrest with Parkinson's disease as a secondary cause. HBO mourns his loss...

A team of researchers tried something that's never been done as a conflict rages. Instead of trying to calculate the toll of war in the moment, they looked forward. What's the reaction to their study?

‘A surge of interest’ is helping scientists understand and normalize ‘the change’

The past was not a good place to die in Britain. Frightening diseases that are essentially vanquished in modern times were rife, deadly, and untreatable. Think syphilis, leprosy and the Black Death. Then there was the endemic violence. Readers of Alice Roberts’s Crypt, the third in her trilogy of books…