Disease

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

It is inevitable when “cutting for cure” that the scalpel violates the integrity of our skin barriers while at the same time unleashing the contents of cells and cut blood vessels to create a veritable 24-hour all-you-can-eat buffet for bacteria.
“The ongoing spread of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in different regions of the world, alongside the recent detections of cases in cattle, is raising concerns within the international community….
Does having diabetes make you older?
PTSD The experience of a profound threat can impact us all. For most, it is a transient, although deeply disturbing, experience grounded in
By now, virtually everyone knows many people who have had COVID.
In 910, the Persian physician Al-Razi wrote that measles should be more dreaded than smallpox, an edict echoed in an old proverb:
A recent study reported in the New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM) has drawn the attention of the community of physicians and scientists researching and treating
From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have been engaged in forecasting the potential economic and human costs associated with an uncontrolled large-scale pandemic, as well as the corresponding benefits that could be derived from an