Disease

Parasitic worms aren't all bad.

Twenty years ago an expert panel at the NIH created a furor among obesity researchers by suggesting that the BMI cutoff point for a person to be considered overwe

Women who are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer have many decisions to make and the more informed they are about their situation, the better able they'll be to make those decisions.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US, accounting for nearly 52,000 deaths in 2014 alone.

It's the stuff of nightmares — a small injury that turns deadly as a result of the unbridled proliferation of a common bacterium, such as Streptococcus sp.

One of the fascinating things that being an older physician permits is recognizing the changing shape of the diseases that have captured our professional lives.

The Spanish Flu of 1918, which caused a pandemic, is estimated to have killed about 2% of the world population, a death toll greater than the military deaths of World

Sometimes information comes from unexpected places — for example, who would expect new insights into the process of tooth decay to come from research into the ocean?

The American College of Physicians (ACP), a professional society representing internal medicine, primary care physicians just released their newest guidance statement for managing diabetes.

Drinking raw milk or consuming raw dairy is 840 times riskier than consuming the pasteurized version.