SPOTTING the key signs of a rare life-threatening brain disorder will save lives, experts said today. In the wake of the ...

Experts have urged for national guidelines to be established for the recognition and diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis ...

Encephalitis is a disease referring to the inflammation or swelling of the brain. Broadly, it can happen because of infections, including viral infections, or the immune system acting up. That’s why ...

A charity has called for greater awareness of the signs of brain inflammation, after a 12-year-old girl took her own life ...

February 22 marks World Encephalitis Day, helping to raise awareness of a disease many don't know about. In the last decade in the United States, approximately 250,000 patients were admitted to the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and he suddenly had four seizures. The doctors are worried ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Ever since I had my son, I tend to worry whenever he gets ill, so I try to educate myself on different viruses and autoimmune disorders. I recently came across encephalitis. What is ...

The widow of a man who died from encephalitis says he had to wait seven hours for a doctor.

On Nov. 9, the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services in California confirmed the first case of St. Louis Encephalitis since 1984 Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at ...