3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (764+ words) For years, a dengue diagnosis in Florida usually came with a question: Where did you travel? Cuba, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, or another part of the world where the mosquito-borne virus regularly circulates were obvious places to look for an…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (741+ words) For women who experience recurrent urinary tract infections, the cycle can become frustratingly familiar: symptoms appear, antibiotics are prescribed, things improve temporarily, and then the burning, urgency, or discomfort comes back. But what if some of those recurring symptoms aren’t…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (747+ words) Swabbing the inside of your cheek or rinsing your mouth takes about 30 seconds. A study published in Cell Host & Microbe on August 20, 2026, found that those 30 seconds may contain enough biological information to detect signs of two of the world’s deadliest…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (954+ words) Aristotle wrote about hair plucking and nail gnawing as troubling habits in Nicomachean Ethics around 350 BCE. More than 2,000 years later, compulsive hair pulling is recognized as trichotillomania, a psychiatric disorder that can be difficult to control and surprisingly difficult to…...