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Diseases

  1. swellness
    How Changing My Diet Helped My EndometriosisYes, going vegan is good for something.
    By Jessica Murnane As told to Alyssa Shelasky
  2. swellness
    How One Woman Was Able To Cope With Chronic Pain From FibromyalgiaWhat’s it like when doctors don’t believe you and you live with chronic pain.
    By Anonymous As told to Stella Bugbee
  3. Zika May Cause Guillain-Barré Syndrome, TooMore than microcephaly.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  4. scary things
    Legionnaires’ Outbreak Kills 4, Sickens 67 Others in the South BronxThe number is likely to rise in the coming days.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  5. diseases
    A College Kid With Measles Traveled Through New York Last WeekHe was diagnosed after taking the Amtrak from Penn Station to Bard College.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  6. ebola
    NBC News Cameraman Declared Ebola-FreeHe received an experimental drug and a blood transfusion from another American survivor.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  7. bill de blasio’s new york
    NYC Rats Are Even More Disgusting Than We ThoughtScientists tested 133 of them and found 18 unknown viruses.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  8. diseases
    JFK Airport Is Doing Ebola Checks NowPlus: a quarantine in New Jersey and a false alarm in Brooklyn.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  9. ebola
    The Dallas Ebola Patient Isn’t Doing WellThe head of the CDC says Thomas Eric Duncan is “fighting for his life.”
    By Caroline Bankoff
  10. diseases
    Five New Yorkers Come Down With West Nile Thanks, mosquitoes.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  11. scary things
    Ebola Hits Another CountryTwo people have died from the virus in Congo.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  12. diseases
    Obama Says It’s Too Soon to Send the Experimental Ebola Drug to AfricaThough it appears to be helping two American patients.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. You Probably Shouldn’t Travel to Places With Ebola, Says CDCDon’t go. Don’t get Ebola.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  14. very sad and scary things
    Could History’s Worst-Ever Ebola Outbreak Spread Outside of West Africa?670 people have already died from the disease.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  15. very sad and scary things
    2 American Aid Workers Have Contracted Ebola in LiberiaBoth are working in the country through faith-based organizations.
    By Katie Zavadski
  16. It’s Better to Die at Home, But Many People Are Scared to Talk About ItIn a new Canadian study, some people who could have died in the comfort of their home didn’t, simply because they and their families didn’t want to talk about end-of-life care.
    By Jesse Singal
  17. How Old-Timey Medicine Gave Us the Modern BeardVictorian-era docs advised men to grow beards to ward off sore throats.
    By Melissa Dahl
  18. things to be afraid of
    MERS Is HereThe Middle Eastern respiratory disease has come to the U.S.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  19. diseases
    Another Person in New York Has Measles That makes 26 cases of the virus.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  20. mad cow disease
    First U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease in Six Years Reported in CaliforniaBut officials say there’s no threat of tainted meat entering the food chain.
    By Brett Smiley
  21. stand clear of the closing doors
    Study: Spending Time With a Bunch of Sick People in a Tiny Metal Container Makes You SickA.k.a., the subway.
    By Dan Amira
  22. panic-demics
    WHO Upgrades Swine-Flu AlertWe are apparently in phase five out of six in preparation for a global pandemic.
    By Chris Rovzar
  23. swine flu
    Swine Flu Now Also Kills Americans People in AmericaThe United States has lost its first victim to the new epidemic.
    By Chris Rovzar