Disease

According to recent provisional data provided by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), there has been a 34 percent increase in the number of val

Women diagnosed with early estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer are typically treated with surgery to remove the tumor and any affected lymph nodes.

An often toxic mixture of snark and narcissism, Twitter usually does not bring out the best in humanity. Amidst all the noise, however, scientists are searching for a useful signal: A predictor of mental illness.

It's a shocking number. Last year, nearly 90,000 people around the world died from measles.

It's been one of those days where the truth is stranger than fiction.

Current conservation policies often clash with public health initiatives in the developing world but they get little attention. There are real harms in advocating water and energy conservation over people.

By now, everyone who’s interested knows that there are 2 main types of diabetes — type 1(in which the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin) and type 2 (in which body tissues don’t or can’t respond appropriately to insulin), typically seen in adults.

Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia do not suddenly occur; both are often proceeded by several years of mild impairment of our cognitive abilities – a pre-dementia phase.

In the last week, the media has extensively covered the increased prevalence of head and neck cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), in men.

Isn't it odd that Florida has so many people living with Alzheimer's Disease? If Erin Brockovich was investigating the case, she probably would conclude that it's something in the water.