Of all the ways to get people thinking about contagious diseases, using music isn’t something that immediately springs to mind....
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In recent decades doctors have branded addiction a brain disease, and treated it as such. But in this riveting and...
The Hunterian Museum has a fantastic number of human and non-human anatomical and pathological specimens in innumerable jars for your viewing pleasure that...
Bluetongue is a viral disease of cattle and sheep transmitted by Culicoides biting midges, which has recently emerged in Europe....
Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) slips under the radar of most healthcare workers, especially compared to its distant relative...
Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes. In...
2014 is likely to be remembered as the year of Ebola. From the first case in March 2014, we all...
I remember the first time it happened with painful clarity. The summer sun had burned the Cornish sand a brilliant...
An evening of expert lectures and displays exploring London’s Great Plague of 1665. Browse new displays from the RCP’s collections...
A bacterial species normally found in the urinary tract, known as Ureaplasma species, has been discovered to be causing brain...
Over the last 50 years, an increasing number of wild animal translocations have been undertaken for conservation purposes. Wild animal...
Most of modern medicine focuses on how disease occurs – what affects our risk of getting sick and which diseases...
The largest genome wide study of the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum has uncovered the genetic changes that underlie its resistance...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Kuru, Fatal Familial Insomnia - in what may seem like a list of ruthless and incurable neurodegenerative diseases...
Biopsy of small bowel showing coeliac disease manifested by blunting of villi, crypt hyperplasia, and lymphocyte infiltration of crypts (from...
The world has watched in horror over the last six months as the Ebola epidemic has unfolded. With the World...
Dr Peter Hotez ASM Press As Dr Peter Hotez notes in the second edition of Forgotten People Forgotten Diseases, thanks...
This review was published in the Reviews section of the Super Science issue (issue 28), as a prominent event review...
Namibia aims to eradicate malaria by 2020. The country has already reduced its yearly burden of malaria cases from over...
Children play in the water. Their mothers wash clothes, while fishermen cast nets from their boats, but this idyllic scene...
Themes from the last fortnight have been cutting mosquito diseases, the role of inflammation in disease and the graphene gimmick....
We've got the good, the bad and the fungi to start with, then a look at the commerce of diversity...
“You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows...
The mountain pine beetle is one of many pests and pathogens migrating North Pacific Ocean is cause of air...
Modern science is usually associated with prestigious academic institutions or industrial laboratories. And with these advanced forms of scientific research...
On June 5th, 1981, the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published the first report of...
James Pope If you own cows, don't feed them mouldy beet silage - it could be their last meal....
Andrew Purcell One of the IPCC’s key predictions for climate change in Europe is that we will experience, on average,...
