The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an early advisory to the public this week to guard against ticks.

The CDC's tracking system shows that weekly rates of ER visits for tick bites are the highest for this time of year since ...

Tick season is off to an early and intense start across the U.S., with unusually high numbers of bites already reported.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can have the same genetic cause, a discovery that won ...

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he's conducted fieldwork where ...

Measles have surged to a record high, with more cases reported this year than any year since the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. This disappointing record comes amid ...

Thee has been a rise in kidney disease due to lifestyle disorders such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity Experts warn ...

(Nopparit/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Bacterial sugars in the gut could be a hidden contributor to two of the most serious ...

Whooping cough, measles and other preventable diseases are resurging globally. Experts link this to falling vaccination rates ...

"The chances are very, very good that if one of our residents in this county, or in this region, is bitten by a tick, that ...

Rare diseases are defined as conditions affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US or less than 1 in 2,000 in Europe. 1-2 While each disease is individually rare, collectively, they represent a ...