Restless legs syndrome (RLS), also known as Willis-Ekbom Disease, is a neurological condition that affects about 7% of people ...

Many of us think of chickenpox as a childhood illness, a harmless rite of passage that fades into memory once the itchy blisters heal. However, what most people don’t realize is that the virus behind ...

I turned 50 during the pandemic and, like most people, I put off all nonessential health care, including my shingles vaccine. Big mistake. When the telltale red bumps of shingles cropped up on my ...

Video: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born ...

Symptoms may be more severe for people over 65 or younger than 5, pregnant women and those with certain chronic medical conditions, such as asthma, diabetes or heart disease. "Some people will ...

Fellin supports the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... “I’m glad I had the vaccine because the symptoms when the shingles came back were mild.

Treatment aims to reduce the severity and duration of the symptoms and ... in 2017 to treat shingles and to replace the previous vaccine, Zostavax. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show cases of norovirus, the highly contagious stomach bug, are surging in the U.S.

a condition characterised by the development of a cleft palate and other developmental symptoms. However, some disease-causing mutations did not destabilise proteins and shed light on alternative ...

PLAYING a sport could re-awaken dormant viruses in the brain and trigger Alzheimer’s disease, a study says. Oxford scientists found evidence that viruses such as the cold-sore virus could "wake ...