Diseases
How Scared Should I Be of Brain-Eating Amoebas?
Yes, it eats people's brains. No, it probably won't eat yours.
How the Zika Frenzy Is Hurting Miami's Restaurant Industry
“We got through the face-eating zombie on bath salts, we got through Elian Gonzalez, we’ll get through this.”
Why Isn't the Global Rate of HIV Infection Declining?
Fewer people are dying, but the HIV infection rate has stayed the same since 2005.
This Desert Town Is Full of People With a Mysterious Disease
Snowflake, Arizona has become an oasis for the afflicted.
Neanderthal Inbreeding Made Some Humans Weaker Today
Harmful mutations in Neanderthals' genome left some humans today with a genetic burden.
Zika Virus, 'Ghostbusters,' and the Strange New Normal of Tropical Disease Pandemics
The current epidemic of Zika virus infection in the Western Hemisphere is actually just the latest in a decade-long wave of worldwide disease outbreaks.
Europe's Pigs Could Be the Answer to Its Food Waste Problem
A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge shows that if the EU would lift its pigswill ban and use new technologies to heat treat food waste for use as pig food, almost 2 million hectares of land would be saved.
WHO Releases Its (Now) Annual List of the Nine Most Dire Epidemic Threats
An unpleasant bunch ranging from Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever to standbys MERS and SARS
The First Test Tube Puppies Have Been Born
After decades of research and attempted trials, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) had been carried out successfully in a dog for the first time.
What Your Dad Ate Before You Were Even Conceived Affects Your Health Now
In a study that tested a radical hypothesis, scientists from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Matabolic Research have found that what your father ate before you were even conceived could affect your health.