Medical News & Trivia

Alpha-gal syndrome is a meat allergy from tick bites. Learn symptoms, diagnosis, and prevention.

Test your knowledge of epidemic typhus, its symptoms, and how to fight this disease.

Think you know the truth about Chagas disease? Test your knowledge with this quick trivia challenge—then dive deeper into its impact, stages, diagnosis, and prevention.

Once a remedy, snake oil became shorthand for fraud. Explore the surprising story behind the term and the salesman who made it infamous.

Curious about artificial food dyes? Explore recent insights into their presence in our food supply and potential implications for health, especially for children.

Explore ice cream headaches (brain freeze): what causes this sharp head pain after cold food/drinks, its link to migraines, and tips to prevent it.

Recent research sheds light on these intriguing biological questions and how the body works in concert to ensure successful fertilization.

Explore the surprising history of Coney Island's incubator baby exhibits, where Dr. Martin Couney saved thousands of premature infants from the late 1800s to the 1940s.

Discover how Louis Pasteur's germ theory disproved old beliefs and how Joseph Lister applied this knowledge to revolutionize surgery, drastically cutting down surgical deaths and paving the way for modern antiseptic practices.

Discover the bizarre 19th-century "whale cure" for rheumatism—people climbed into whale carcasses seeking relief. A strange, stinky slice of history!

New study reveals an antiviral chewing gum made from lablab beans that could reduce the spread of influenza and oral herpes viruses. Learn how this innovative gum works.

New research warns that brown rice may expose infants to unsafe arsenic levels. Find out how arsenic in rice affects children and what parents can do to minimize risks.