Disease

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

The media took an optimistic assessment of the current situation, but new cases remain far worse than when the pandemic began in March of 2020 or at the subsequent low point in June.
This will mark the fourth article in a little over a week on ivermectin on our website, and we are not alone.
Dr. Dan Stein recently presented a dataset representing an ongoing meta-analysis of patients' responses with COVID-19 to ivermectin.
Why can’t a drug approved and used in humans for 35 years, with excellent safety margins, and 3.7 billion doses administered worldwide, and with almost uniformly demonstrated benefit in all stages of COVID-19 infection, get a decent day in court?&
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a new level of interest in lung health.
The study of genetics has always been an attempt to understand our biologically determined fate. Many of us know of families with a predisposition to maladies like heart disease or breast cancer.
Vitamin D is one of the fat-soluble vitamins, along with A, E, and K.
The basic COVID-19 disease metrics are cases (positive tests, interpreted as infections) and deaths (death certificates). The headlines on cable news are usually national totals: 30+ million cases and 560,000+ deaths.
Ringing in the ears, aka tinnitus, already extremely common, is now being linked to COVID.
Shortly after SARS-COV-2 began its global rampage last spring, the anti-vaccine movement tried to capitalize on the crisis.