The Hood River County Health Department confirmed April 14 that two people have died from a mad cow-like illness called ...

A week later, Abraham woke up in the middle of the night and tried to stand. She collapsed to the floor, struggling to ...

A new study published in Genetics in Medicine identifies a novel disease-associated gene, GPKOW, that plays an important role ...

I care deeply because this chronic disease is mine. It lives inside me. It’s radically changed my life and the life of my ...

Khartik Uppalapati is a student at Oakton High School. He is also the founder of RareGen, a non-profit that advocates for ...

Matter of Time,” a documentary featuring legendary rocker Eddie Vedder premiering this fall at the Tribeca Film Festival, is ...

Thanks in part to federal funding for newborn hearing screening, about 98% of newborns are screened for hearing loss before ...

Health officials in Hood River County, Oregon, are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as ...

Three people in a county in Oregon are believed to have acquired Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disease with a 100% ...

Green iguanas in captivity are known carriers of E. coli and salmonella bacteria. In a study of captive green iguanas in Mexico, nearly 40% were found to carry E. coli strains that were resistant to ...

Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been reported in Hood River County, Oregon, including two deaths. The CDC and ...

One million Malaysians are affected by rare diseases, but the exact number remains unclear due to the lack of a ...