The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

I pray to God every night that we will soon find out what causes this deadly disease. The term 'Black Death' was first used in English in the 1700s. At the time of the epidemic, most people would ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

A new update for Crusader Kings III has introduced The Black Death and other plague-like illnesses, providing yet another way for your ruler to meet a premature end. The Black Death is the most ...

Y. pestis has caused three plague pandemics; the Black Death was the second. The new research sheds light on the mysteries of when the second plague pandemic emerged and the timing of the bacterium’s ...

A new review and policy statement underscore the inaccuracy of sickle cell trait as a cause of death on autopsies.

Black women face hidden risks of heart disease due to misdiagnosis and medical bias. The healthcare system must change to save lives.

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases ... that eight people had been killed by the disease in a remote part of Tanzania.

Why do Black mothers in America continue dying at alarming rates in a healthcare system equipped with cutting-edge technology ...