Disease

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

There is something inherently creepy about yeast and fungus. At least that will probably be your assessment if you watched both seasons of The Last of Us.
Senator Lindsay Graham’s death was due to an aortic dissection, an infrequent complication of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.
Over the past two decades, private cord blood banks have convinced millions of families to pay thousands of dollars to store stem cells collected from their newborns' umbilical cords. The promise?
The old “Dr. Google” era has given way to a faster, louder medical marketplace: TikTok, Reddit, podcasts, and influencer-led telehealth.
In December 2023, the FDA approved the first two gene therapies with curative potential for sickle cell disease (SCD): Casgevy, which uses CRISPR to edit a patient’s own stem cells, and Lyfgenia, which uses a viral vector to deliver a functi
Before answering that question, it helps to understand what cancer screening is meant to do—and why even good screening tests can create difficult trade-offs. Why earlier is not always simpler