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

Roberto Palumbo’s immersive and haunting journey into "1657 The Year of the Plague" showcases the depths of human suffering ...

A 1619 outbreak of plague in France, rooted largely in Paris, led to the first medical mask. As the disease killed some 80 percent of those it afflicted, French doctor Charles De Lorme invented an ...

George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of the isolation huts. He dreads the thought of what is waiting for him inside; more victims dying an incurable, horrible death – with ...

She remembers feeling comforted by her doctors. They talked directly to her, even though she was a kid. She felt seen. "They're not just listening to my mom," she said. "I'm actually the one going ...

“With guttural bass lines, skronking sax, freeform guitar riffs and tribal drums, improvised jazzmetal never sounded so dangerous, healthy, fresh and essential … consider me healed and ...