Disease

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

Let's start with the people attending the annual motorcycle event because, from a health point of view, it is easy: no significant social distancing or use of masks. So, shame on them. They have rights, but they also have responsibilities.
  Fred Lipfert, Ph.D., and Sheldon Lipsky 
The historians looked back at many of our prior pandemics; you know the litany, the Black Death, numerous episodes of cholera, and the Spanish Flu.
I’ve wondered about that last question for some time. Hypertension is a recognized COVID-19 co-morbidity, but a large portion of the population has hypertension; it didn’t seem to be a significant discriminator between little and lots of risk.
A new study published in BMJ examined if there was a link between natural hair color or dye and cancer. A lot of women color their hair, so this is certainly a worthwhile topic.
While there are many ways to define loneliness, the researchers, studying a cross-section of adults in the Netherlands, settled on this: 
The table seen below this paragraph was taken from a poster [1] at the European and International Congress on Obesity, which shows the number of individ
In June, we discussed air pollution dispersion as a model for virus dispersion.
Prostate cancer, now considered the most common cancer in men, especially African-Americans, was uncommon until the 1950s.