Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...

The signers acknowledged that leaders of their professions had previously condemned a street protest against lockdown ...

Single dose vaccination with TNX-801 protects animals from a lethal challenge with monkeypox, the causative agent of mpox ...

The common name, mad dog skullcap, bears some explanation. It was previously thought that skullcap was able to cure and prevent rabies. The claims were disproven. Native Americans did, however, use ...

As a historian who researches the lives of people of the past, many of whom are now completely forgotten, every so often I ...

Arthur Garrett is a former ecologist and educator, retired geneticist and pediatrician. You can email him at ...

Today we're talking about the Antonine Plague that took the lives of 5 million people over 14 years during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. Today, we're talking smallpox, war, false prophets, and ...

I’ve always admired medical wizards who, in dire circumstances like the recent COVID-19 epidemic, somehow come up with ...

Unquestionably it was a foundational document for America, calling for unity against Great Britain in the struggle for ...

The deadliest country in the world for young children is South Sudan — the United Nations estimates that about 1 in 10 children born there won’t make it to their fifth birthday.  But just a hundred ...

Bold, buzzy, and controversial, The Last of Us likely won't be back until 2027 or so. In the meantime, here are 10 more pre- ...