Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the most common form of dementia, with symptoms appearing after age 65. Since carriers of clusterin risk alleles have an increased likelihood of developing ...

Officials with the Bureau of Land Management are investigating the discovery of dozens of human remains found on the side of the highway in Searchlight, Nevada Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He ...

Three men and a woman were arrested in Dublin on Wednesday as part of an investigation into organised crime and human trafficking. The three men (two in their 30s and one in his 20s) and one woman ...

Around 70 piles of cremated human remains were found in a mass grave in a remote desert outside Las Vegas, and authorities have no idea how they got there. An anonymous source stumbled upon an ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock. By Alexa Robles-Gil In early August, a case of myiasis, an ...

The patient returned from travel to El Salvador, officials said. The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on ...

A Maryland resident has been diagnosed with a rare parasitic infection known as New World screwworm (NWS), marking the first human case in the United States in years. The Centers for Disease Control ...

PROVO — Two county health departments in Utah are reporting more human cases of West Nile virus on Wednesday, including one that led to the death of a Davis County resident. The Davis County Health ...

Just two months after reports warily noted that new world screwworms, flesh-eating parasites that are notorious for killing livestock, pets and other animals, hadn’t “made it back into the U.S. yet,” ...