We’ve all been there. You start feeling off, so you decide to Google your symptoms. Suddenly, WebMD has you convinced that ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a ...

Claims that Lyme disease was developed as a military bioweapon and escaped from a government lab are flatly contradicted by decades of scientific evidence -- despite what federal regulators have ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday pledged more federal attention and resources aimed at fighting Lyme disease, with a focus on the views of patients and ...

U.S. president Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders a government watchdog to probe a conspiracy theory—promoted by the country’s secretary of health and human services ...

Trump did have an MRI scan in October 2025, but it was reportedly on his cardiovascular system and abdominal area, not his brain. In December 2025, a rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump announced ...

A group of Georgia students from Lambert High School in Forsyth County are drawing national attention after developing what may be a faster, more precise way to detect Lyme disease. According to CBS ...

In October, President Trump revealed that he recently underwent an MRI and said that the results were “perfect.” He was not specific about what type of MRI he received, though later in the ...

A vulnerability has been discovered in the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. For decades, Lyme disease has frustrated both physicians and patients alike. Caused by the corkscrew-shaped bacterium ...

Did you brush your teeth? A new study links gum disease to signs of brain damage in older adults. These signs, called white matter hyperintensities, are thought to show damage to the brain’s white ...