A parasitic brain worm fatal to moose, elk, and caribou has been confirmed in northern Alberta for the first time.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal condition caused by abnormal protein cells attacking the nervous system in the brain ...

Women's Health Initiative (WHI)—made headlines. As an ongoing study launched in the '90s, the WHI asked: could menopause ...

Loss of muscle mass, also called muscle wasting or atrophy, can happen gradually as part of getting older or more suddenly ...

Cortisol is the body's main stress hormone. Too much cortisol over time may harm memory and brain health, but the cortisol-dementia link is complex and mostly correlational. Managing stress, sleep, ...

The British Columbia government says testing has confirmed a sample from a deer harvested in the Okanagan region was negative ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called ...

More than 34,000 licenses have been sold ahead of the first round of shotgun deer hunting season this weekend, and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is projecting steady harvest numbers.

Before any Pennsylvania deer hunting seasons and autumn’s rut, Pennsylvania’s white-tailed deer herd was estimated at 1.5 million animals. Our deer numbers are managed very well by hunters and careful ...

A deadly, easily transmissible disease was found in a deer in Decatur County and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is ...

WE are pulled in lots of directions at this time of year and our health typically takes a back seat, which is understandable.

Allegan is now the 17th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease has been identified in the wild deer population.