Disease

Coverage of infectious and chronic diseases — their causes, mechanisms, epidemiology, prevention strategies, and the latest science on how the body fights back.

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:
Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 157 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:
An Everyday Symptom Hides a Deeper Story
Despite declining mortality rates, cardiovascular disease affects approximately 47.8 million women in the United States, while breast cancer affects about 3.3 million.
Once upon a time, there was a disease that ravaged the kingdom. It struck quietly at first, one tooth, one child, one aching night at a time.