As the political figures of my youth pass away, I realize how few of them I really know much about, even though I'm a pretty political guy obviously. That's especially true of the Reagan Administration. I could probably name 40 or so Reagan appointees without...
disease
So I hear Dengue Fever is coming to my town and I hope it is this: Unfortunately, it is this: This past summer, Aedes aegypti—the invasive African mosquito best known.
This is a pretty amazing story of the discovery of a mass grave of Irish laborers who died in the 1832 cholera epidemic. Basically, the Irish found whatever jobs they.
The word hero is used way too often in our society for any number of reasons. But actual heroes exist. One of them was the AIDS activist Spencer Cox, who died this week at the age of 44. He helped save thousands of lives through...
Although I don't identify as a historian of technology per se, I have presented at the Society for the History of Technology before. And the technologies I deal with in.
In an incredibly great piece of public health news, researchers are getting very close to developing a vaccination against malaria. The first study showed the risk of malaria cut in.
Here is a homeopathic recipe for scarlet fever from Annabella P. Hill's, Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book, from 1867. "As soon as the nature of the disease is ascertained, rub the patient night and morning with fat bacon, rubbing every part of the body but...