A woman lost a body part after contracting a disease that caused a medieval plague. The 24-year-old began experiencing strong burning sensations coming from both of her legs, running from the middle ...

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In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...

The doctor became a patient after ignoring his own heart attack symptoms. He's urging others not to make the same mistake.

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"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

Learn more about the Black women who worked tirelessly to help heal patients and find a cure for tuberculosis.

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Alarmed by the color and frequency of the blood in her stool, Mahon was referred to a GI doctor who initially thought she had an autoimmune disease. “Once I got the colonoscopy, she told me that she ...

While we know the hallmark symptoms of COVID ― like coughing, fatigue, for example ― there are some COVID-19 symptoms that aren’t normal and shouldn’t be treated as such. “What’s really important is ...

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