Derived from a Greek word for a grave, taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive. Historically, this grim fate was far ...

Fact-Check: A message is widely circulating on WhatsApp claiming that lemon extracts can help fight various diseases, ...

Many pet owners love to let beloved their cats and dogs sleep in bed with them, but should you? A vet has weighed in on the ...

Pets bring joy and companionship, along with a shocking number of unexpected expenses that somehow never quite add up to what ...

The patient visited the Medicover Hospital with severe abdominal pain, swelling, nausea, and fullness in the upper abdomen ...

Objectives To characterise the aetiological spectrum of thoracic granulomatous diseases and identify diagnostic features that facilitate differentiation among causes. Design Retrospective multicentre ...

Today we have modern antiparasitic drugs. But 130 years ago, our forebears had nothing but quack cures and prayers to drive out tapeworms.

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced ...

Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a rare iron tool that the Celts used to perform cranial surgery 2,300 years ago. The ...

Over 60% of human infectious diseases come from animals. Learn what zoonotic diseases are, how they are transmitted, and why ...

A new robotic system enables the first remote and transatlantic thrombectomy, showing how distance may no longer limit stroke ...