New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to help investigate a mysterious brain illness that ...

An international collaboration led by RIKEN researchers has discovered how unusual spherical structures form in the brains of ...

The genetic mutation that causes Huntington's disease (HD)—a devastating brain disease that disrupts mobility and diminishes ...

Fernando Valenzuela’s cause of death has been determined after the Dodgers legend died last month at the age of 63. According ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

What exactly is zombie deer disease? Find out how chronic wasting disease spreads and if it poses a threat to humans.

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

Three hunters from Northeastern Oregon illegally brought back to Oregon skulls of two mule deer they had killed in Wyoming, ...

Image via Getty Images If you live in New York, then you may want to steer clear of venison this season. Officials are reporting zombie deer disease in the state for the first time in years. So ...

Lady Gaga debuted her new single “Disease” — an electro-pop song about curing a lover’s “tortured” disease — on Thursday night. The upbeat track was written by Michael Polansky ...