Disease

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.

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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...

On the court in the 1970s, there was nothing small about the presence of "Tiny" Archibald.

Proteus, the shape-shifting god of the Greeks, has come to mean malleable or changeable.

The anti-vaccine movement is not limited just to the United States. Anti-vaxxers are influential in Europe, and the results have been entirely predictable: Europe is in the grip of a measles outbreak.