After a year, a team of six specialists, eight medications, and countless nights mourning my "old" life and feeling desperately sorry for myself, there was a conclusion: I had lupus.
Posted 04.27.2012
By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/27/2012 01:32 PM EDT on LiveScience Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likel...
Jeffrey Levi | Posted 04.23.2012
All Americans should have the opportunity to lead long, healthy and productive lives. Yet one in two African-American and Hispanic-Latino children born this generation will develop type 2 diabetes as adults. This statistic is unacceptable because it is preventable.
David de Ferranti | Posted 04.25.2012
Have you ever had to buy a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net (LLIN)? Probably not, even if you live in Africa, where nine out of ten malaria-related deaths occur.
Josh Tetrick | Posted 04.03.2012
For millions of indigenous villagers and pastoralists it means forced relocation, loss of livelihoods, and a death blow to their ancient cultures. Ethiopia is a sad example of the worst of these outcomes.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 03.30.2012
Economic radical Paul Ryan has endorsed Mitt Romney, Romney's embraced the Ryan budget, and the House Republicans have voted to enact the Romney/Ryan vision of the future into law. Yet an eerie silence has settled over the vision itself.
Bill Chameides | Posted 04.16.2012
Despite all the calamities we have faced as a species, we've managed to survive. I suspect we will survive a few centuries adapting to global warming. However, I doubt if it's going to be an especially pleasant experience for those doing the surviving.
Daniel P. Malito | Posted 03.24.2012
Recently, I spoke with someone who opened my eyes to an entire class of diseases for which there are few to no medications available, and almost no plans to create any remedies in the near future. These ailments are called "rare" or "orphan" diseases.
Karen Curley | Posted 03.19.2012
Accra is the capital of Ghana and is a modern city, yet there is garbage all over. There are many reasons for this.
AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 01.09.2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A mentally ill man who bathed in and drank from a contaminated river most likely was the first person to be infected in the C...
Hillary St. Pierre | Posted 01.13.2012
The first time someone uttered the words, "You still have hope" in response to my cancer, I almost slapped them.
Organic Authority.com | Posted 01.10.2012
A study from German researchers showed that dogs are able to detect early-stage lung cancer better than any doctor or any fancy medical equipment.
Jenna Benn | Posted 01.08.2012
I have had my fertility taken, but I am not less of a woman. I have been robbed repeatedly, but I am not damaged. I have been tested and challenged, but I am not defeated.
Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 12.13.2011
Global meat production and consumption has increased rapidly in recent decades, with harmful effects on the environment and public health as well as on the economy.
Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 11.15.2011
It all starts with a cough. A woman covers her mouth and then shakes hands with a man next to her on a plane. He infects 10 others. Everyone gets horr...
Posted 10.26.2011
Art theft results in an estimated loss of $6 billion each year, but does that take into account the amount people will pay on the black market? The...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.04.2011
If the rising risks of Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis or Babesiosis weren't reasons enough to take extra precautions while outdoors this summer -- and to ...
The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 09.14.2011
Facebook apparently saved the life of Deborah Copaken Kogan's son. A stunning firsthand account on Slate.com, of how Leo, the writer's son, was ess...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.01.2011
The girl and her dog, they were fine (wow) Until they left a doody -- that's a crime (bow wow) Performer Martin Luther sings to the familiar tun...
AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 09.12.2011
A small island fishing community 800 air miles southwest of Anchorage has found itself in a monster of a fight with federal enforcers based more than 4,100 miles away in Washington, D.C.
Bernard Starr | Posted 09.11.2011
The chief symptom of Posterior Alimentary Canal Syndrome resists any potential cure. Sufferers have their heads up the posterior end of the alimentary canal (also known as the rear end).
Chriss Street | Posted 08.23.2011
This highly entertaining book serves as not only a riotous call to arms, but a roadmap for Americans to re-claim the 21st century as their own.
Linda Flanagan | Posted 08.21.2011
What most of us don't see, and rarely hear about, is the silent army of civil servants who do the actual work of running the institutions that make up our government.
Posted 08.16.2011
If you've been waiting to jump on the personalized nutrition bandwagon, now may be the time. A new study conducted by the Wake Forest Baptist Medical ...
Bill Chameides | Posted 08.14.2011
Of the some 80,000 chemicals manufactured and used in the United States, the EPA has issued regulations to control just five "existing" and four "new" chemicals. Today, we'll learn a little about each of them.
Lauren Finney | Posted 05.09.2012