More Kids Are Getting Ear Surgery To Avoid Being Bullied
A 6-year-old boy in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently had plastic surgery to make his ears stick out less, and parents everywhere weighed in...
Mosquito Diseases You Need To Know About
Few of us will forget the Zika virus epidemic of 2016, which resulted in hundreds of infants being born with birth defects after their...
Cases Of Fatal Brain Disease Showing Up Decades After Infection
A few hundred people around the world caught a rare and fatal brain disease from contaminated growth hormone treatments they received during the 1950s...
Teenage Weight Tied To Odds Of Diabetes-Related Death Decades Later
The increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and eventually dying from the disease, begins early in life and at weights in the "normal"...
Reverse Image Search Often Yields Wrong Diagnosis For Skin Disease
Google's reverse image search tool isn't designed to diagnose skin conditions, researchers say, and people who try to use it this way are likely...
What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
MS is a central nervous system illness that causes nerve degeneration. It causes a person's brain and spinal cord to send incorrect signals, leading...
An Obscure Disease Affects 1 in 10 Women
Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Padma Lakshmi, and another 176 million women suffer from an often painful, debilitating disease that few people have heard of—including...
Samsung and Bottneuro AG Partner to Alzheimer’s Treatment
Samsung Electronics Switzerland has teamed up with Bottneuro AG, a Swiss MedTech startup, to develop a ground-breaking solution for the diagnosis and treatment of...
How a Diabetes Diagnosis Changes Your Life
Diabetes is a life-changing condition. People diagnosed with type 1 diabetes often have a long time to get used to managing it. They usually...
Parkinson’s Disease ‘May’ Start In Gut
The brain disease Parkinson's may actually start in the depths of the digestive system, US scientists say.
In their study, people whose appendix had been...