One of humanity’s oldest and deadliest killers is staging a modern-day comeback. The so-called “white plague” reclaimed its title as the world’s deadliest infectious disease in 2023, after being briefly overtaken by COVID-19 during the first three years of the pandemic. And the US isn’t immune. While the country still has one of the lowest … Read more
Missing your wedding day is more than a headache — but this groom’s reception-ruining migraine turned out to be much more serious. Nathan Vaughan had no choice but to miss his wedding reception in May after tying the knot to his now-wife Katie Vaughan, née Glass, because of a “painful” migraine, spending the evening “passed out” … Read more
A subclass of synthetic opioids called nitazenes could be more powerful than fentanyl — and 1,000 times more potent than morphine — according to a new study. The small study, which was published in JAMA Network Open on Tuesday, found that those patients who overdosed on nitazenes had to receive two or more doses of … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a short list of “priority diseases” that could cause the next deadly pandemic. Most of the diseases are already known to us — Ebola, SARS and Zika made the cut — but the final entry has the terrifying name “Disease X.” The term Disease X is used by the WHO as … Read more
The head of the World Health Organization warned that the world must prepare for the next pandemic, which could be “even deadlier” than the COVID-19 pandemic. In a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded an alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. … Read more
A top British scientist thought that she had just pulled a muscle, but it turns out that she actually had terminal cancer. Kirsty Smitten, 28, who has been included on the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Europe’s science and healthcare category, has been diagnosed with a rare heart cancer. Cardiac angiosarcoma is a … Read more