Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MDLearning what a tick bite looks like is essential because you can’t rely on seeing the tick. The tick may fall off quickly or be so small it’s undetectable.

Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

Social media is enabling health symptoms and mass psychogenic illnesses to spread quickly around the world. But by knowing ...

Ticks are most active when the temperature rises above 40 degrees, according to Grayson. He said the solution to avoiding ...

All participants underwent high-resolution T1-weighted MRI and tests of tic symptom severity. Children in the Tourette group had considerably thinner cortices than the control group in the ventral ...

Two Emerging Infectious Diseases studies link bites from black-legged (deer) and western black-legged ticks to potentially ...

Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), for example, cause a distinct circular rash and flu-like symptoms. Your first thought may be about the harmful ...

A woman who was bitten by a tick and told she’d be fine says undiagnosed Lyme Disease left her bedbound. Alayna Bellquist was left with a small, red pattern on her stomach after the parasite nipped ...