SALINAS, CA − A lethal fungus has quietly spread in the soil across the West. Now, it’s threatening areas well beyond the dusty deserts and valleys where it likely originated. Valley fever, a disease ...

Alongside prevalent stereotypes regarding physical appearances, food preferences have emerged as a scale of measuring development and upward mobility. To complicate it further, a rampant diet culture ...

Circumcision is the latest example of Kennedy seizing on a hot-button issue that already has entrenched and aggressive ...

Wearing Rudraksha is considered to have great religious and spiritual significance. It is not only a piece of jewelry, but also considered beneficial for health, mental peace, and energy. However, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Sound waves at frequencies above the threshold for human hearing are routinely used in medical care. Also known as ultrasound, these sound waves can help clinicians diagnose and ...

Although the name sounds endearing, the 'kissing bug' disease is nothing to fawn over. The disease is now being considered as an endemic classification, according to an August report from the Center ...

Teaching about religion or teaching religion—they’re not the same, but the line often blurs. In a secular system, the ...

CDC warns that a parasitic illness called Chagas disease is now endemic — or always present — in several states. Biting insects called kissing bugs have been identified in 32 states, predominantly in ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

The US government’s shutdown is shaking the nation at a time when public health staffing has already been reduced, the threat of disease outbreaks looms, and both the respiratory virus season and ...

Dear Smith College Religion Department Alums and Current Religion Majors/Minors, It has been a very unusual academic year at Smith. We have been greatly saddened by the cancellation of in person ...