Articles tagged with 'Meningitis' | Checkup Newsroom

The Texas Department of State Health Services has issued a letter warning parents and cheerleaders from 39 states and nine counties that they may have been exposed to mumps at a cheerleading competition last month in Dallas.  The Dallas …

When medical personnel suspect a patient has meningococcal meningitis, a degree of panic ensues, even for the most confident of medical professionals. Why is that? The fact that meningococcal meningitis tends to strike young and healthy individuals …

The two Americans who contracted the Ebola virus while caring for people in West Africa have been discharged. I’m sure many of you are relieved, while still concerned, especially after you heard that Dr. Kent Brantly may be moving back to the …