A JetBlue pilot’s illness looked like food poisoning, but it was actually an increasingly common tick-borne meat allergy that ...

For years, Oscar has greeted dawn with the rhythmic swing of his machete as he chops sugar cane in fields near his home in El Salvador. On a typical morning, the 33-year-old begins work long before ...

Of all the ways our immune system can run amok and damage the body instead of protecting it, autoimmune encephalitis is one ...

Lupus, which is difficult to treat and on the rise, is part of the group of autoimmune diseases that affect millions of people worldwide. View on euronews ...

A 13-year-old boy suffered for three years with severe abdominal pain and vomiting, despite normal medical tests. Neurologist ...

Kyleigh MacGregor plans her life five years at a time. MacGregor has lupus, an incurable disease in which her immune system attacks her body’s organs and tissue. It’s been a year since MacGregor, 31, ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often known ...

(via SciShow) Between 1485 and 1551, England was hit by at least five epidemics of sweating sickness. But after that, the disease supposedly vanished off the face of the Earth. With fatality rates as ...

What’s behind the Mysterious Epidemic of Kidney Disease Killing Thousands of Young Men? As cases of chronic kidney disease emerge in outdoor laborers around the world, scientists are finding that ...