As summer activities ramp up and more people spend time outside, health experts are sounding the alarm on a small but serious danger: ticks. As part of our “Ask the ...

Scientists and pharmaceutical companies are racing to develop a human vaccine for Lyme disease, but increasing vaccine skepticism more broadly has some advocates concerned that politics will stand in ...

This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the “red meat allergy,” that nickname ...

Inside Douglas Norris' lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a healthy stack of envelopes — not with letters inside, but with ticks.

According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), emergency room visits for tick bites are at ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) reports that Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is the most common tick-borne ...

This is the final installment of a four-part Healio Dermatology summer skin series, where experts discuss common seasonal ...

Ticks have long been an unwelcome part of New York summers, but in recent years, illnesses caused by tick bites have been ...

A 5-week-old infant named Lily has been diagnosed with a suspected case of Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne illness.

Justin Timberlake has become the latest A-lister to be hit by Lyme disease, and some are convinced they've found the holiday ...