"As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives," he told USA TODAY in an extended interview about Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, a new book he co-authored with ...

One disease that is now considered rare has taken people on social media by surprise thanks to its concerning symptoms. Kuru, also known as "laughing disease" or "laughing death", was much more ...

His talk, “Sweetness and Disease: How Capitalist Sugary Industries Have Destroyed Human Biology,” focused on the first chapter of his current book project. A digital banner advertising anthropology ...

The hospital contacted Eye See Me co-founder and co-owner Pamela Blair to purchase books for outpatients and patients with sickle cell disease. She put together a list of books for infants to 12th ...

In "Second Chance at 75,” Dr. Hasnain describes both his personal and professional experience with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, conditions he considers to be societal scourges. Unlike ...

The book jumps headfirst into the molecular biology ... makes sheep scrape incessantly against fence posts), mad cow disease and kuru, the illness that plagued those people in Papua New Guinea.

On Friday at midnight, the Grammy and Oscar winner released her highly anticipated comeback single "Disease", the first single off of her yet-to-be-titled seventh studio album, for now referenced ...

In his new book, Brahic details how the exponential growth of prions can wreak havoc throughout the brain, causing universally fatal but thankfully rare diseases like kuru and CJD in humans ...

it gives kids a better understanding of Alzheimer's disease and how to cope with changes, while encouraging openness and compassion. "My mom suffers from memory issues and so having a book written ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University faculty member provides critical updates regarding the spread of infectious diseases and rise of chronic and degenerative diseases in a second edition ...

Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles that cause Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease, Kuru Disease, and fatal familial insomnia in humans. Normal prion protein can be converted to its infectious ...