Naming diseases is a complicated business. To be useful, a name needs to be unique, descriptive, and memorable so it can be referenced easily, especially when medical situations become urgent. Though ...

Upset woman feeling like a social outcast as she has been suffering from bullying and discrimination. She feels excluded, offended and hurt and is sitting alone in cafe. Disease names are confusing, ...

Ayik is an advocate for people living with rare diseases. Recently, the smoldering embers of conflict in my family’s rare disease community have burst into flames over the use of an eponym: ...

Popular disease names like “swine flu” and “Spanish Flu” are too “stigmatizing,” according to the World Health Organization, and in the future all disease names should be carefully designed not to ...

What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body — and tens of millions of people. While most ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

Naming diseases is a complicated business. To be useful, a name needs to be unique, descriptive, and memorable so it can be referenced easily, especially when medical situations become urgent. Though ...

Stacker investigated how "monkeypox" and other disease names have caused controversy, using a collection of news, scientific, and government sources. - Canva Stacker investigated how "monkeypox" and ...