Low Blow: How Can Martial Artists Get Hit in the Crotch Without Getting Hurt?
Ancient kung fu techniques seemingly allow experts to absorb groin strikes without flinching. Is it a trick, or are they just nuts?
Ancient kung fu techniques seemingly allow experts to absorb groin strikes without flinching. Is it a trick, or are they just nuts?
There are many weird ways to die. But Gouverneur Morris’s DIY whale-bone catheter might take the cake.
The deal will create a total of 200 million vaccine doses from Pfizer to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
As states begin to get Pfizer's vaccine, certain groups will be prioritized. Here's who might be ahead of you in line.
Seventy years ago, a polio epidemic swept through Wytheville, Virginia—and the town went on lockdown.
Starbucks is saying thank you to frontline workers helping the country through the coronavirus pandemic with the gift of free coffee throughout December.
Doctors’ white coats became common in the late 19th century, but they’ve recently given rise to “white coat syndrome.”
The "cytokine storms" that precede severe illness in patients with COVID-19 has been poorly understood. New research has traced the risk of lung damage and organ failure to two key proteins that have the potential to be treated with drugs.
Pfizer's vaccine, which uses messenger RNA to instruct the body to mount a defense against the coronavirus, is showing highly promising results in the first real evidence of efficacy of any coronavirus vaccine trial.
Woodrow Wilson never publicly acknowledged the 1918 influenza pandemic—not even after he caught the virus himself.
Some shots can barely be felt while others feel like you've been punched in the arm. Is it technique, the vaccine, or something else?
At the end of her life, Eva Perón was suffering from painful cancer and displaying erratic behavior, and her lobotomy may have been a way to treat both problems.
Some people are confused by the DO designation for health care providers, but it's not really so unusual.
When Ann Trow Sommers first arrived in New York City in 1831, she had no idea how notorious and vilified she’d soon become. In a matter of years, she’d craft a whole new identity for herself as Madame Restell, a prominent and wealthy abortionist.
The facts on where it comes from, how it works, and whether it could happen with the novel coronavirus.
Two of Roald Dahl’s books are dedicated to his daughter, Olivia, who died from measles complications in 1962.
July and August were too early for flu shots, but September and October? Just right, according to experts.
From ‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson to female Nobel Laureates you may not have heard of, Nina Chhita's Instagram is giving us some important history lessons.
There's an excellent reason why pharmacy locations like CVS and Walgreens make you walk all the way through the store before picking up your antibiotics.
Thinking of enrolling in one of the coronavirus vaccine trials being conducted around the country? Here's what you need to know.
In September 1932, Public Health Service officials recruited 600 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, to receive treatment for “bad blood.” The men had no idea they had become unwitting participants in one of the most controversial medical studies in recent ti
Maybe you know what the definition of ‘epidemiology’ is, but do you know what epidemiologists actually do?
Tests that offer low sensitivity and more false negatives are still valuable in the fight against coronavirus. But will the FDA agree?
There isn't one factor behind COVID-19's racial disparity. Numerous forms of racism make Black, Latino, and Indigenous people more vulnerable to the coronavirus.