Strange and rare health conditions. Story by Jim Loboy • 1h (WYTV) – Here are strange diseases and sicknesses that almost no one gets, but they’re still on the books.

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a disruptive behavior disorder that emerges during childhood or adolescence and is characterized by persistent angry or irritable mood, unruly and ...

In 1955, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responded to an outbreak of 250 new cases of polio -- even though Dr. Jonas Salk had developed a vaccine for the disease three years earlier ...

The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian plague (541-542) – don’t seem that ...

Strange visual disturbances occur early in about 10% of Alzheimer's cases, and when this happens it almost always signals the impending arrival of the disease, a new study finds.

Related to ODD, the FDA’s Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) designation, further incentivizes companies to invest in rare childhood diseases by providing a voucher program to applicants approved by ...