Have a craving for human brains this Halloween? We don't suggest eating them.
Throughout history, people have attributed scary looking and unfamiliar illnesses to dark forces, including witches and demons.
People are generally aware of the most common causes of hallucinations, like schizophrenia and a really high fever. But lesser known are the more rare causes; here are six you probably haven't heard about.
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Health conditions don’t just affect our insides — they can also alter our physical appearance. Here’s a look at a few of those physical changes in illnesses that are not uncommon.
A premier Manhattan restaurant has been ordered to pay $1.3 million in fines after one of their customers accidentally ate a piece of wire that came from a grill brush.
When you have a severe allergic reaction, your own immune system overreacts as it tries to fight off something it thinks is dangerous.
Plenty of routine infections can lead to sepsis when your body starts to attack the intruder and ends up hitting its own internal organs. And it can be fatal.
Being buried alive is a popular theme of nightmares and horror movies, but it seems pretty difficult to confuse a live person for a dead one. Or is it?
A bride of Frankenstein would have been even more scary than you thought.
Drug tests are difficult to pass, but there are a few methods that can help your results turn out clean.
Here's the science behind Werewolf Syndrome, Vampire Disease, and Walking Corpse Disease, several real-life medical conditions.
A 'flesh-eating' bacteria killed a man in Maryland earlier this September in just four days. What should you know about Vibrio vulnificus?
You can dance if you want to, as long as you aren’t falling victim to the kind of mysterious dancing plague that killed people during medieval times.
There are benefits to computerizing medical care, but there are also many drawbacks to using robots as doctors instead of humans.
A British monarch was brutally treated for a stroke in ways that seem horrifying when compared to the medical techniques we have today.