Disease

Today, we rank 50th in life expectancy globally and have increasingly diverged from our “high-income” country (HIC) peers. By any measure, we spend more on healthcare than any other wealthy nation.

The third season of The Pitt just concluded with episode 15, which may or may not have sucked, depending on your tolerance for gratuitous gore and screeching karaoke singers at the end [1].

For patients, alpha-gal syndrome can be startling. A tick bite in the summer can lead, months later, to hives, gastrointestinal distress, or even life-threatening anaphylaxis hours after eating a hamburger or steak.

About 1,500 measles cases have been reported in the US so far in 2026.

I hate to deliver (groan) bad news, but—as I've said many times before—you'd better be careful with the supplements you're gulping down. They're unregulated and may be unsafe, ineffective, or both.

  Definition of life expectancy

Last year, the WHO released alarming data on dementia, a group of conditions marked b

Death certificates serve as narratives explaining individual deaths. They are rooted in fact, but their significance can shift depending on which details are included, omitted, or misunderstood.

The second law of thermodynamics tells us that systems naturally drift toward disorder. Left alone, gradients dissipate, structures decay, and entropy increases.

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 159 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss: