I was newly pregnant with my fourth child the summer that the chicken pox was running rampant in my neighborhood. August is ...

When the world was running scared about the monkey-pox virus in 2022, I asked the University of Houston college students I was teaching if they had heard of chickenpox. They stared at me blankly. None ...

Chickenpox is a common and highly infectious disease caused by the Herpes varicella virus. After an incubation period of 14 to 21 days the illness starts with fever and generally feeling unwell.

Laziness is not entirely to blame—I also dislike the feeling of putting on clothes or getting into my clean sheets after applying greasy body lotion. Formulated with shea butter and shea oil ...