Disease

For several diseases South Dakota has top childhood vaccination rates in the nation. The latest information available comes from the 2014 National…

Seven people in South Dakota have contracted tularemia. The state health department reports the disease in six adults over the age of 50 and one child who…

Avian flu is spreading across the country, and it’s shown up at six South Dakota turkey operations. Those farms are in counties including Beadle,…

State health experts say that more than one third of South Dakota’s children are overweight or obese. That’s according to the most recent sampling from…

The cases of invasive MRSA are now up 84% over the five year average in South Dakota. MRSA is more commonly called a staph infection and is often…

Russ Wilke, MD, Internal Medicine Physician at Sanford Health in Fargo. Wilke is a co-author in a study published in Nature Communications about how…

April marks the annual observance of STD Awareness Month. Individuals, health care providers and community-based organizations are encouraged to bring a…

Frontline's "TB Silent Killer" airs on SDPB-TV Tuesday, March 25th at 9:00 pm, Central; 8 pm, Mountain. Tuberculosis was once thought to be a disease of…

Mitochondria disease or dysfunction is an energy production problem. Almost all cells in the body have mitochondria, which are tiny "power plants" that…

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control shows a sharp drop in obesity rates among young children, ages 2-5. South Dakota is among the states…