Disease

Coverage of infectious and chronic diseases — their causes, mechanisms, epidemiology, prevention strategies, and the latest science on how the body fights back.

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.
The death of Ensa Cosby, Bill Cosby’s daughter, and inspiration for the Cosby Show character Vanessa Huxtable died in the last few days from renal disease– a disease with a high incidence in the African American community.
What's the biggest, deadliest threat the world faces today? How a person answers that question reveals a lot about them.
The one silver lining from this truly awful flu season is that the worst just might be over. 
We often tend to think of rural environments as being less polluted than our cities — fewer cars, less air pollution, etc. Thus we might expect folks living in rural areas to have fewer lung-related ailments.
Diabetes is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Government intelligence agencies get a lot of criticism when things go wrong but rarely receive any praise when things go right. That's because, when things go wrong, they often go disastrously wrong; but when things go right...