The San Francisco Zoo knowingly imported parakeets with a contagious and often fatal bird disease for an exhibit encouraging human interaction, a zoo official said.
Ten cases of Legionnaires' disease have been diagnosed among patients and visitors at a San Antonio hospital, and health officials suspect the facility is the source of the outbreak.
To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. But doctors have another name for it — intermittent explosive disorder — and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting up to 16 million Americans.
Eighty-six people were being treated Sunday following an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the northern city of Pamplona, regional authorities said.
Officials at a suburban Denver hospital alerted six brain surgery patients after another neurosurgery patient died of classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare degenerative brain ailment, the hospital said Thursday.
A disease that can deform trout, cause them to chase their own tail and eventually lead to their starvation, continues to spread swiftly through Utah's waterways.
The first-ever treatment for an extremely rare and often fatal genetic disease that interferes with the body's ability to tap built-up stores of sugar for energy received federal approval Friday.
A disease that can deform trout, cause them to chase their own tail and eventually lead to their starvation will get special attention this year from legislators, who want to try to reduce its effects on commercial and recreational fisheries.
The fungus that causes sudden oak death likely arrived in a shipment to commercial nurseries from Asia, according to scientists.
A bacterialike disease that can cause blindness in birds has been detected for the first time in wild finches in California, the state Department of Fish and Game said Tuesday.
A woman has filed a lawsuit against Emory Healthcare after she underwent surgery there with instruments that had been exposed to a fatal disease similar to the human version of mad cow disease.
The head of a newly formed medical research institute announced Tuesday that the group will launch a long-running study of heart disease and other illnesses, tracking patients' lifestyles and over factors over decades.
High doses of a powerful cholesterol-lowering drug seemed to actually reverse heart disease — not just keep it from getting worse — new research showed.
Besides juggling school, sports and everything else that goes along with being a teenager, 16-year-old Corinne Cline also has to deal with managing her diabetes. But Cline is benefiting from a program that links teenagers with Dartmouth College students who also have chronic illnesses.
Sixty of the 76 deer killed at a Portage County game farm earlier this year tested positive for chronic wasting disease. It is the highest concentration of animals infected with the deadly ailment in a farm herd the state has found so far, officials said Friday.
In addition to juggling school, sports and everything else that goes along with being a teenager, 16-year-old Corinne Cline also faces daily showdowns with "The Diabetes Police."
Humans risk being overrun by diseases from the animal world, according to researchers who have documented 38 illnesses that have made that jump over the past 25 years.
Mutating diseases that originate in the animal world and then infect humans pose a growing health threat to people around the globe, according to scientists.
The discovery of the fatal bird flu strain in Africa has raised concerns the continent may not be equipped to contain with the disease, especially as many villagers are unaware of the threat.