Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Family history of autoimmune disease is a risk factor for developing of JIA, although it does not impact disease ...

In a recent study published on the preprint server Research Square*, researchers report that individuals with a history of Borrelia infection, otherwise known as Lyme disease, caused by tick bites are ...

Dementia has been around since antiquity, but scientists identified Alzheimer’s as a brain disease only a century ago. Clues to its biology emerged slowly, and the field struggled. But discoveries ...

Journalist Daisy Hernández chronicles the history of Chagas disease, also known as kissing bug disease, and how it changed ...

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Dogs are believed to have been the first domesticated animal species, likely occurring in many locations around the world at least 20,000 years ago to help humans track and hunt wild animals for food.

Although smallpox is now ‘unfamiliar to the world today’ historian Elizabeth Fenn has written that it was ‘a misery commonplace in years gone by.’ For centuries, the smallpox virus and the gruesome ...

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading global cause of death, and we break down its pathology, risk factors, and the ...

Knowing your family’s heart health history can help you determine if you need genetic testing and allow you to take proactive measures for your own well-being. Several heart conditions, such as ...