Medicine Facts

47 facts, from the everyday to the astonishing.

Mary Mallon lived in New York about 100 years ago, and worked as a cook. It seemed that every family she worked for…

SARS, short for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, is big news this spring. By the middle of April 2003, over 2000…

These days, twins, triplets, and other multiple births are becoming more common, but how do they happen? Fraternal twins…

Most people who have been vaccinated with the smallpox vaccine never really question what exactly was injected into…

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