DISEASE

A new study finds that fecal bacteria lives longer in sand than in seawater.

Norwegian researchers think chronic fatigue syndrome may be caused by antibodies produced to fight off infection.

Residents of Kalachi, Kazakhstan are falling asleep for days at a time—and no one seems to know why.

Eating brains killed some tribe members, but it helped others evolve a genetic resistance to a prion disease that could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of dementia.

Let's clear up some misconceptions.

From the conjoined livers from a pair of Siamese twins to slides of Albert Einstein’s brain, Philadelphia's Mütter Museum houses dozens of strange artifacts from medical history.

While brain surgery has become a fairly common procedure with humans, it is still very rarely used on animal patients, who have drastically different anatomies than we do.

Large animals tend to live longer than smaller ones. But this isn't the case for most breeds of dog. What gives?

Humanity spent the last hundred years virtually eradicating some of the planet’s most unpleasant diseases. But some of them have started showing up again.