Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to ...
The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related diseases. The ancient strain doesn’t fit neatly into modern categories, ...
Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...
Dementia has been around since antiquity, but scientists identified Alzheimer’s as a brain disease only a century ago. Clues to its biology emerged slowly, and the field struggled. But discoveries ...
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the ...
Historian with the Friends of ʻIolani Palace Zita Cup Choy and curatorial assistant Chase Benbow spoke to The Conversation's ...
Heart disease — a formidable silent adversary — silently affects millions of women across the globe. To navigate the complex terrain of women’s heart health, comprehending the intricate relationship ...
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