Posts in: disease
Avoiding Risk at Your Own Risk
Studies Show Childhood Vaccination Exemptions May Be Overused, Create Larger Public Health Problems
The Immortal Woman Who Science Stole and History Tried to Forget
Rebecca Skloot’s new book reveals untold truths about one of medical science’s most important tools
What Makes Snot Turn Green?
We all do it, one time or another. You blow your nose for what must be the hundredth time that day. Before you throw out the tissue, you take a surreptitious glance inside. Rather than the usual clear or slight yellow, you see something different. Something green. Suddenly, your snot resembles the color palette of [...]
Did Tainted Cow’s Milk Kill Jane Austen?
Medical and literary experts debate English novelist Jane Austen’s fatal illness
Nitric Oxide Holds Promise for Better Antibiotics
Researchers may improve antibiotics by targeting nitric oxide in bacteria
Weightlifting with Lymphedema
Pumping iron may be safe after breast cancer surgery, but doctors urge caution.
Killing TB While it Sleeps
Newly discovered compounds can kill tuberculosis bacteria while it is in its dormant state.
In Kenya, Better Cows for Better Health
A parasite researcher from NYU is hoping to tackle African sleeping sickness in Keyna by creating genetically enhanced cows that cannot catch or transmit the disease
Tuberculosis is at a Record Low, and We’ve Been Here Before
History’s lessons on the resurgence of a disease.
