Based on an NFL model of brain trauma, researchers delivered a mild impact to the heads of awake, 9-month-old female rats ...

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

The condition, known as influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis (IAE), is a rare type of brain inflammation ...

What about those brain complications? Earlier this month, state health departments and hospitals warned doctors to watch for ...

Doctors around the US have anecdotally reported an uptick of children critically ill with the flu developing severe, ...

Lowering the body temperature of preterm infants (born at 33 to 35 weeks of pregnancy) with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy ...

This year’s harsh flu season – the most intense in 15 years – has federal health officials trying to understand if it sparked an increase in a rare but life-threatening brain complication in ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 19,000 people have died from the flu so far this winter, including 86 children. Thursday, the CDC reported at least nine of those children ...