Ticks are small, and you might not notice when they bite, but the diseases they carry can dramatically harm your health. Each ...

If you are being pestered by deer flies in the woods of North America this summer, don’t run away – try sitting quietly instead. An experiment shows that people attract more of the biting insects ...

Valerie Cran Dahl of Salol, Minn., has been living with Lyme disease for nearly 30 years, she says. In the summer of 1985, when she was 14, she distinctly remembers that she woke up to find "a dozen ...

WARE -- Dr. Paul Gerstein, emergency department physician on staff at Baystate Mary Lane Hospital, has some tips to avoid getting bit by the deer tick, the tiny parasite, particularly active in the ...