Illness

Two illnesses related to vaping were recently reported in Eastern South Dakota. Both patients are between 20 to 24 years old. Josh Clayton is the State…

A treatment developed at Sanford Research is in clinical trial to help kids with a debilitating genetic condition. The FDA fast-tracked the study in part…

West Nile has killed an elderly South Dakotan. State Health Department leaders say the person lived in Yankton County and was in the age range of 80 to…

Sioux Falls is gaining another emergency department. Avera Health is building a new family medical center west of Interstate 29, and health leaders are…

Archana Chatterjee, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics and senior associate dean for faculty development at the University of South Dakota…

As the influenza virus continues to spread rapidly across the country, Dr. Victor Huber, assistant professor of Basic Biomedical Sciences for the…

The South Dakota Department of Health has reported the first influenza death of the season. The person was elderly and from Pennington County. The…

South Dakota had its first confirmed case of influenza in October, a month earlier than expected by medical experts. State epidemiologist Lon Kightlinger…