Health & Science

Doctors and public health workers across the U.S. are racing to develop innovative and unconventional strategies to test and treat people for the infection.

This year’s flu season could start earlier than expected — and the dominant strain to spread might be influenza A, which can cause more severe illness, health experts say.

Four people have received hearts or kidneys from pigs. Some of their relatives recount a roller coaster of hope and uncertainty.

News4’s Eun Yang spoke with a psychiatrist about the findings and what parents can do.

Mosquitoes are known to leave their victims itching, but more importantly, they transmit diseases like West Nile virus. Here are tips to protect yourself and your family after Maryland’s first human case this year.

If a teacher says that a child is struggling to pay attention in class, the quick conclusion might be to get them tested for ADHD. A Bethesda-based neuro-optometrist says it might be something else: vision problems. Margaret Barry and her daughter Sasha started looking for solutions after Sasha wasn’t progressing in school like she should. ‘We actually hired a...

If your child is distracted easily or lose their place when they’re reading, you might be quick to get an ADHD diagnosis. Dr. Bryce Appelbaum, a neuro-optometrist, says that it might be vision issues instead. News4’s Joseph Olmo talks to Appelbaum about how ADHD-like symptoms are similar to problems with vision. 

Back-to-school can be a difficult time, from getting into a healthy sleep routine to managing anxiety. News4’s Eun Yang speaks to psychiatrist Dr. Joshua Weiner about how to prepare your family.

Scientists have long considered that the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection, human papillomavirus, or HPV, may be a driver of infertility.

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a virus first discovered in 1958 that causes fever, headache, muscle aches and exhaustion and eventually painful, fluid-filled blisters, or “pox,” over the body.

Bekele, from Fairfax, Virginia, is being recognized for developing an affordable bar of soap that could make delivering medications for skin cancers, including melanoma, more accessible.

Ketamine is a prescription medication which is also abused recreationally under the street names Special K, Super K and Vitamin K. Here’s what you need to know.

A blood test to screen for colon cancer was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday. It’s from Guardant Health and it’s called Shield.

A prominent doctors’ group worries that a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding known as tongue-tie is being overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery.

New research suggests certain blood tests could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease faster and more accurately.

Measles is a highly contagious airborne disease caused by a virus that can lead to severe complications and death.

A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature outlines a clear pathway for how the disease likely develops, pointing to abnormalities in the immune systems of people with lupus.

News4’s Eun Yang spoke with a psychiatrist about how people can conquer their fear of spiders if they spot them.

President Joe Biden is under pressure to undergo cognitive testing even though his physician says he gets, and passes, an annual neurologic exam. But what can the brief screening tool actually tell about a person’s brain health? And when does the average older adult need one?

Huge, colorful Joro spiders are making their way up the East Coast and will likely reach the D.C. area, bug experts say. While Joro spiders are harmless to people and pets, their size and presence could trigger insectophobia, an excessive and intense fear of insects. News4 spoke with Dr. Asha Patton-Smith, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with Kaiser Permanente,...