Oregon's maternal mortality rate is 18.5 per 100,000 births. A free Portland doula program is working to bring that number down.

Red meat allergy from tick bites—alpha-gal syndrome—may affect up to 450,000 Americans. Learn the causes, symptoms, and how ...

A collage of medical scans shows parasites throughout a woman's body after she ate raw pork for 10 years. The images came ...

Even mild inflammation during pregnancy led mouse offspring to develop persistent brain overactivity, sensory sensitivity, ...

Over the last five years, approximately 15 lakh people across the country have suffered dog bites. In 2025, the number of bite victims stood at 3.69 lakh. In just the first five months of 2026, the ...

With 10 cases in 2025, Guinea worm could be the second disease ever eradicated. Here is what makes disease eradication ...

Tehama officials warned of rabies in bats, while Shasta County also reported an infected bat. Learn how to spot signs of ...

As the evidence has piled up that amyloid by itself is not going to be the answer in Alzheimer's disease, tau has been on the upswing for some years. Now we have another direct test of this idea in ...

The future of surgery just scrubbed in. In a groundbreaking medical first, robots designed to move and function like humans have performed surgery on a live patient, successfully completing two ...

An 11-year-old boy in Ontario has died of rabies after he awoke in the middle of the night to find a bat on his face, medical experts reported. The family was staying at a cottage in northern Ontario ...