A relatively new class of autoimmune diseases that affect the brain is making psychiatrists rethink some diagnoses.

Nipah is a deadly virus with no vaccine or cure and considered a high-risk pathogen by the World Health Organization ...

A new study reveals a critical vulnerability in a brain receptor targeted by a rare autoimmune disease. Researchers have ...

New OHSU study maps antibody "hot spots" behind anti‑NMDAR encephalitis. Could change diagnosis and treatment.

"This is exactly how outbreaks start." ...

Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much ...

Measles is revealing fractures in our public health system and insurance disparities. Each case costs almost $250,000.

Rare virus that inspired movie Contagion spreads to nurses as nationwide alert issued ...

Two nurses at a private hospital near Kolkata, West Bengal, were infected with the potentially fatal virus, and one is in a ...

What We Know About West Bengal Cases. Akbar Novruz Read more India has moved swiftly to contain a fresh outbreak of the Nipah ...

The country has had at least nine documented outbreaks of Nipah, a virus that lives in bats and can be passed to humans ...