Disease

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

Many Americans are seeking greater “authenticity” in their lives.  There’s nothing wrong with that unless, in the process, they’re being misled by false advertising that causes them to pay inflated prices for products that are “free from” var
For some illnesses, the end times come slowly over a long enough period that the anxiety provoked in discussing what to do as death nears is eased and plans can be made.
The first city in the US to routinely disinfect water was Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1908. Water disinfection is a broad term that includes all methods of killing microbes in drinking water.
Many people think of cancer as a single disease, and for many years the only treatment was to cut out tumor tissue that could be seen.  However, the history of cancer is that we have gradually subdivided malignancies into multiple categories.
“Prostate cancer is not only the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men, but it also carries with it one of the largest racial disparities in outcomes in oncology.”
At the risk of being accused of grotesque anthropomorphism, I nonetheless maintain that viruses are evil.
Clean air is essentially a negative; it results from everyone not polluting.
Are there symptoms associated with what is being called Long COVID, unique for the long-term effects of this specific viral infection? Or can it follow any viral infection or no infection at all?
Modern medicine has produced many kinds of high-tech miracles, among them gene therapy to correct malfunctioning genes, 
The Department of Veterans Affairs is the federal government's second-largest department. As of 2021, it operated approximately 1,600 healthcare facilities, 144 medical centers, and 1,232 outpatient sites of varying complexity.