Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
The disease was first noted on the Midwestern frontier in the early 1800s as settlers expanded into new territory with their herds. Known initially as “the slows,”“the staggers,”“the trembles” and eventually “milk sickness,” the disease had a terrifying progression. Within days, a for...
Check out the next page to learn about treatments. What's in a Name? Since ringworm is a fungus, not a worm, the name is quite misleading. Originally, doctors thought that ringworm was the result of a parasite, a type of worm, so they named the infection tinea, which means "growing ...
In America, around the time of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), the practice of medicine was seen as more of a part-time avocation. Many clergymen served as healers and many of them were quite competent by the standards of the day. Doctors were usually not educated. Books that were po...
(conversion of T4 to T3). Monotherapy with levothyroxine (T4) has been standard of care for decades. Butstudies have demonstratedthat patients treated with T4 only have relatively low serum levels of T3 (tri-iodothyronine) compared to the general population and symptoms of hypothyroidism persist ...
Astudy published in early 2020took that a step further, and genetically-engineered mice to remove the BMAL1 clock gene. The authors wanted to find out how the body clock could influence infection-fighting cells, specific to pneumonia. They already knew that mice had a harder time fighting off...
the coronavirus pandemic declaration, this health system had already developed, tested, and implemented an AI algorithm for identification of COVID pneumonia on radiology imaging, and found this AI algorithm was both well received and frequently used with a definitive impact on clinical decision making...
County, Michigan, and California’s Napa Valley -- were reported in the United States through 1909. The worst by far was New York in 1907, with 2,500 cases and a five percent mortality rate, a harbinger of the 1916 epidemic in the Northeast that killed 2,000 in ...