Disease

Have you heard of Ebola? It’s this disease from West Africa that only kills people there, right? Unfortunately, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, or…

For all our advances in medicine and science, disease outbreaks are still not uncommon. Many people suspect that a plague is one…

Real life Viruses and Hollywood Viruses are different. Real life Viruses have unpleasant symptoms. Hollywood Viruses have mutant-zombie-vampires with anger issues. Real…

We all admire and respect medical experts for their knowledge and ability to help us overcome various sicknesses and diseases. We forget,…

Diseases leave obvious imprints on history. A decrease in population size and less genetic diversity are some examples of the impact you’d…

Medicine is not usually like a House episode. There is no lone genius who pulls a diagnosis out of a hat having…

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN, aka the “suicide disease”) is considered to be the worst pain known to man and medicine. People with this…

It was John Dewey who once said, “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” It is…

Known as the human form of mad cow disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is an incredibly rare yet terrifying illness. Scientists currently…

For most people who develop medical conditions due to unforeseen diseases or accidents, life tends to get more difficult. It doesn’t matter…