Officials quarantined a cell block at the Harris County Jail after an inmate was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.

Hiccups, scientifically known as singultus, are involuntary diaphragm contractions often triggered by eating or drinking.

Six people have died due to a multistate outbreak of listeria linked to recalled prepared pasta meals sold at major grocery chains, including Albertsons, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market ...

Relly Ladner clutched her shin on the soccer field. At 17 years old, and training with her team, she was suddenly feeling a strange tingling sensation in her leg.

Sigourney Ley has been placed on the urgent transplant list after the right side of her heart stopped functioning ...

Multiple people across the globe who stepped forward are speaking about what they say is the debilitating aftermath they now ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is on the war path again. He’s already created memorable series on the Vietnam War, the Civil ...

A Spanish footballer was rushed to hospital with a worrying brain injury during a Women's Champions League match on Wednesday ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new tool that can estimate a person's risk of developing memory and thinking ...

In 1932, the Guy's Hospital (London, UK) physician John Ryle lectured on meningitis and meningism. By meningitis he meant the pathological state that involved inflammation, usually infective, of the ...