Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

In the late 1740s, the theologian John Wesley published ‘Primitive Physick, or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most ...

At least one person has died and 134 have been infected from an outbreak of salmonella linked to a recall of more than 20 ...

The South's health disparities begin with its landscape and the region's agricultural history that compounded these health disadvantages.

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

While inconvenient, motion sickness may also have some evolutionary advantages. It’s thought species prone to motion sickness ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

In modern medicine, scopolamine (marketed in the UK as hyoscine hydrobromide) is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, ...

Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

With vaccine-preventable diseases like pertussis and measles making a resurgence in Michigan, doctors and public health ...

Why is this group of people sick? Tax collectors were known to regularly extort and overcharge, making them public symbols of ...