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The outbreak of measles that started in West Texas in January and spread to other regions and states has focused renewed attention on a childhood disease that had been eliminated in the United States in recent decades.

Patients can die if they take certain previously prescribed beta-blockers during a hematopoietic cell transplant due to suppressed signals from nerves that promote bone marrow regeneration.

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) are at an increased risk of infection and infection-related hospitalizations, but a study published in Neurology found that being infected with COVID-19 did not significantly affect the course of the disease.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered the first molecular biomarker for acquired generalized lipodystrophy (AGL), a rare disorder in which fat deposits are destroyed, causing patients to have dangerously low body fat, signs of accelerated aging, and severe metabolic diseases

A type of E. coli bacteria that causes bloody diarrhea uses an amino acid produced by the body in response to infection to intensify its symptoms.

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Understanding the biology of these tissues is critical to developing new treatments for the disease, found mostly in tropical

There are emerging fresh options to consider for your ballpark diet.

Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP), a rare neurological condition causing limbs to go limp, may be an underrecognized cause of paralysis in young Hispanic men, a review of data by UT Southwestern endocrinologists shows.

Two classes of drugs prescribed off-label for some patients with Type 1 diabetes can provide significant benefits but also come with health concerns, according to a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

Adults who developed severe obesity before the age of 18 were nearly three times more likely than those who developed the condition later to be subjected to severe experienced weight stigma (EWS), a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.