The bubonic plague, infamously responsible for the deaths of millions of 14th century Europeans and a very upsetting…

Attention cat-lovers and those who merely tolerate them: cat scratch fever is real and just like the CDC’s strident…

Two weeks ago, Shannen Doherty revealed photos of herself with a shaved head, a symbolic announcement that she had…

In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of French scientists described the case of a 24-year-old…

“It feels like someone came in and confiscated my brain,” Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster wrote

As the Zika virus continues to scare the shit out of everyone, fertility clinics and sperm banks are trying to adopt…

Uh oh. It seems our our blessed Church of Chipotle has gone astray and lost itself in the mire of legal…

Wow, excellent: according to reports, a teenage girl in Bend, Oregon, contracted a case of bubonic plague from a…

On March 20, a 44-year-old Liberian woman was diagnosed with Ebola. The case initially puzzled doctors because the…

While ebola hasn't been in the news as much in present weeks—prompting some to speculate that it's a…

Ebola has killed thousands of people in West Africa and seriously impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands more.…

On October 1st, the New York Times published a photograph of a four-year-old girl in Sierra Leone. In the…

The Ice Bucket Challenge is sweeping my Facebook news feed and has gone as far as to be featured the Today Show,…

Back in 2000, measles was considered to be "eliminated" in the United States. But today—thanks largely to the…

In Northern California’s Bay Area, an illness that resembles polio is affecting children and doctors aren’t sure…

This is frightening: Look at how many people, in each state in the United States, are opting not to vaccinate their…

I love adorable kitty-cats as much as the next non-monster, but, as the poets say: "Just because you love something…

Two parents in Texas have been, for the last three months, forced to watch their 12-year-old daughter suffer from a…

According to a new poll, men and women have very different perceptions of what goes on during cold and flu season…

Data for California’s 2010 outbreak of whooping cough is in and it is telling parents, as politely as possible, to…