Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with Parkinson's, but not in any brains from healthy people, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal JCI Insight. Photo ...

Researchers believe a usually harmless virus could trigger Parkinson’s disease. The Human Pegivirus (HPgV) belongs to the same family as hepatitis C and is a blood-borne virus. Five out of 10 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A usually harmless childhood virus may hide in the lungs and come back to cause wheezing and other symptoms of asthma, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. They found evidence ...

Researchers have uncovered new clues that could help doctors understand why some people suffer from Parkinson’s disease. A progressive neurological disorder affecting 10 million people globally, ...

Scientists discovered strikingly high levels of a common virus in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease, a finding that points to a potential cause for the neurological disorder. Researchers ...

April 11 -- FRIDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- A common, harmless human virus can target and kill breast cancer stem cells, Canadian researchers report. "We suspected that reovirus might be ...

The microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio. University of Illinois ...

In March, the FDA advised against the use of GSK’s Rotarix vaccine against the rotavirus — a gastrointestinal virus that kills over half a million children under five worldwide each year — after ...

Researchers developed the first effective chikungunya fever vaccine from a virus that is only harmful to insects, according to a study published in the journal Nature Medicine. To create the vaccine, ...

Doctors may soon have a new zit zapper, thanks to the discovery that a harmless virus living on human skin seeks out and kills pimple-causing bacteria. A paper on this pimple enemy is in the latest ...