Browsing: diseases

In September 2024, a handful of patients showed up at the emergency room in the coastal city of Fano, Italy,…

The idea that cancer could behave like a contagious disease may seem absurd; in humans, cancer cannot be transmitted from…

Fear of explosive diarrhea seems to be scaring customers away from the purveyors of salad in business districts and strip…

Could It Be cyclosporiasis or is it just IBS? That’s the question every social feed and group chat is agonizing…

The US’s explosive diarrhea problem is worse than you think—and it’s about to get even messier.The country is grappling with…

By 2025, most experts had adopted the same position. “I think everybody now agrees that long Covid is a biologic…

As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, a…

As an Ebola outbreak rages in central and East Africa, public health workers say that the response has been stymied…

In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane…

A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient’s own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results…

Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch.Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring 41 people in the US for the Andes hantavirus after…

As passengers return to the US from the cruise that saw a rare hantavirus outbreak, much of the country is…

US-based pharmaceutical company Moderna confirmed that it has been working on the development of hantavirus vaccines in collaboration with the…

For decades, assessing cholesterol risk has been built around a simple idea: Lower “bad” cholesterol, lower your chance of a…

For decades, a diabetes diagnosis has relied largely on measuring blood sugar and seeing whether it crosses a clinical threshold.…