Prof fights erratic illness
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The infection that threatens the life of University of Colorado Nobel laureate Eric Cornell is rare, aggressive and often the result of plain bad luck, doctors say.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
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Health officials said the student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria that is primarily spread in hospitals but that in recent years has surfaced increasingly in nonhospital settings.
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Climbing the ranks in public health can be a frustrating business. Nobody knows your name when bird flu is under control, when pets are not poisoned, when bacteria-laden burgers aren't making kids sick. But a run of really bad crises can launch your career.
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Under scrutiny the case in which a male patient died earlier this year, showing symptoms consistent with a rare and invariably fatal brain disease.
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For doctors, searching out disease before it appears can also carry risks.
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A South Carolina case has focused attention not just on the danger of an unorthodox therapy but also on the conduct of the state medical board.
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An Iowa researcher is studying a little-known eating disorder that some doctors may miss: purging disorder.
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How to heal when the inexplicable occurs? Sometimes the right response is acting normal
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The afternoon she walked into the office of internist Wayne Meyer, Deborah Kaplan had never felt worse. Hours earlier Kaplan had been sent home from a Maryland emergency room with a diagnosis of chickenpox. She was too sick to cool her heels for the customary 2 1/2 hours in the waiting room of he...
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Last December, medical school researchers came to a professional meeting in Puerto Rico with a sense of urgency. Federal drug regulators were reviewing unpublished data from their studies on
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The case of a woman in a vegetative   state who appeared to play tennis in her head highlights one of   the key frustrations of doctors who treat such patients --   trying to figure out what is going on in someone else's brain.
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When a degenerative illness strikes, a husband leaves but never goes away.
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An Atlanta lawyer with a potentially deadly contagious disease talks about a journey that has triggered fear and outrage.
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Dr. Jerry Avorn wears many hats at Harvard University. He&#39;s a veteran medical school professor and a published author on the drug industry.
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A public-health doctor discovers that poor diet, not airborne microbes, is the cause of pellagra, a debilitating and often fatal disease. He's bucking the medical establishment, though, and his findings are not universally accepted.