Disease

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

In plain language, “food is medicine” programs provide free, healthy food through clinical care to patients whose conditions may be affected by diet and who also struggle to afford enough food.
Cancer plays no favorites. It can strike the young, the old, the poor, the rich.  
Fibromyalgia “is a multifaceted syndrome,” for patients, presenting with a range of symptoms from pain to fatigue, cognitive impairment, and body discomforts found in other conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome.
In the movie Pressure, General Eisenhower must time the D-Day invasion based on a forecast predicting a window of tolerable weather over the English Channel.
September is National Vascular Disease Awareness Month. I would be remiss as a lapsed vascular surgeon not to speak about the disease afflicting the patients I have cared for over 30 years.
I recently wrote about a nonsensical study claiming that artificially sweetened drinks contribute to cognitive decline. It was nonsense.