Pediatricians and top health officials are warning about an uptick in activity of a common virus that in rare cases can cause a polio-like syndrome in young children. The virus, an enterovirus known ...

The research, led by João Guilherme G. Tedde and colleagues from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, indicates that epilepsy-related ...

Swine acute diarrhoea syndrome coronavirus has the potential to spill over to humans and animals, researchers say.

Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa died under unlikely circumstances. After the couple—as well as one of their three dogs—were found dead in their Santa Fe home Feb. 26, New Mexico Chief Medical ...

(HealthDay)—In patients with novel avian-origin influenza A H7N9 virus infection, radiological findings mirror the severity of the clinical presentation, according to a study published in the ...

UConn researchers have identified a novel small molecule for the development of a preventative treatment for a serious and costly disease in pigs. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus ...

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At least 161 children in New York have gotten sick, making the state’s caseload one of the largest publicly reported anywhere. By Joseph Goldstein and Jesse McKinley Blood will be collected from ...