A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

A 60-year-old man presents to the office with multiple flat, red, non-scaly, non-itchy skin lesions that he developed 2 weeks ago. He is otherwise healthy and not on medications. He works at a local ...

A Legionnaires' disease outbreak in New York City has spread, leaving people wondering about the disease and how it can affect them. Around 10,000 people are estimated to develop the disease each year ...

An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease has killed one person and sickened 22 others in New York. The New York City Health Department has been investigating the cluster of infections in Harlem and ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

When most of us think of serious diseases that kill millions of people, the ones that come to mind are often the ones that get the most attention: cancer, COVID-19, heart disease and diabetes. But a ...

An artist’s imagining of a Native American shaman, thought to influence the unseen good and evil spirits, administering curatives to a patient. Neither Native nor European treatments stopped major ...

Notes: In this article, James Kences documents the massive and dreadful die out of Indigenous people in the coastal areas of New England from 1616 to 1618, apparently struck by contagious diseases, ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — News 8 is once again honoring Black history by looking at health care and the racial disparities many report facing. According to the Pew Research Center, overall, 18% of ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...