Illness

There are over 7,000 rare diseases, and up to 30 million people in the U.S. are fighting one of these diseases every day, many of them children.

There’s a new study looking at which diet will help you live longer, tuberculosis in India is on the rise and a recent story says that getting bit by a tick could make you allergic to red meat.

Whooping cough (also known as Pertussis) is a highly contagious respiratory illness that affects only humans. While it can affect people of all ages, it can be more dangerous for younger, elderly, or medically predisposed individuals.

Here in Idaho, one group is helping to make the wishes of terminally ill adults come true.

Art is a powerful medium, possessing the ability to impact many areas of our lives, including our health and the way we cope with illness.

A new mystery illness has been making dogs sick from the East Coast to Oregon, and Idaho may have the disease as well.

If you knew you only had a short time left on this earth, what would you want to do most with your remaining moments? That’s the question Wish Granters asks of terminally ill adults and their caregivers in Idaho – then they find a way to grant those last wishes.

An epidemic of what’s been described as a "flu-like" illness has brought schools to a screeching halt in eastern Idaho. Four districts in the east have…

Like much of the nation, Idaho is dealing with a serious and deadly flu season. Areas across the state are getting hit hard with the virus, especially the…

Idaho has its first human case of West Nile Virus for 2015. A woman in her 60’s who lives in Washington County got sick in late June.Raemi Nolevanko is an…