Long considered a disease introduced to America by European colonizers, leprosy may in fact have a much older history on the ...

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In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Discover the fascinating journey of lemons from their origins in Southeast Asia to becoming a global culinary and medicinal ...

Background Diagnostic errors cause substantial preventable harms worldwide, but rigorous estimates for total burden are lacking. We previously estimated diagnostic ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

E VER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age.

Researchers found traces of Mycobacterium lepromatosis in thousand-year-old human remains in Canada and Argentina.