At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
Scientists debate how exactly native dogs generally fell out of the gene pool: Our ancestors may have killed them to prevent inter-breeding with the dogs they’d already bred to hunt and herd, or they could have been eaten in times of famine. Disease is the cause that comes up most often...
Native Americans have been affected by disease and health concerns throughout their history, but a major turning point in Native American disease presence was with the arrival of Europeans. During this period European settlers brought many different technologies and lifestyles with them, but one of ...
Indeed, old age for them, and many old Americans can mean not only the possible failure of one's health, but the loss of identity and self-worth. W: Yes, it's true. What do you have to say about the problem of old age? M: Many experts have given talks here that have focused...
Estimates vary on how many Osage people were killed during what came to be called the “Reign of Terror”—from the Fed’s low official count of 24 (based on its Bureau of Investigation’s limited inquiry) to a high in the hundreds. Some, like the Osage Nation and National Archives hist...
Medieval Europeans, Native Americans, Chesapeake colonists, and city people in the nineteenth century were affected by disease. Although many societies experienced change due to disease, nineteenth-century urban America was most affected by disease and Native Americans were the least affected. Europe in...
Type 2 is a disease caused by a mix of your genes and your lifestyle. Beingoverweight, havinghigh blood pressure, and notexercisingall raise your chances for type 2. You can have diabetes for years and not know it. Symptoms like thirst, peeing more often, blurryeyesight, and tingling hand...
The findings, just published in the journalAmerican Antiquityon January 24, 2020, make the case that a fresh wave of Native Americans repopulated the region in the 1500s and kept a steady presence there through the 1700s, when migrations, warfare, disease and environmental change led to a re...
In 1796, aphysiciannamed Edward Jenner decided to prove a theory that had been circulating for some time. Smallpox once killed millions of people worldwide. Cowpox was a less serious disease related to smallpox that milkmaids often caught through exposure to infected cows. Jenner noticed that mi...