For hundreds of years, the dancing plague remained a mystery. For two scorching summer months in Strasbourg, France, beginning in 1518, people couldn’t escape the compulsion to dance, succumbing ...

Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's semi-autobiographical Little House books have long been familiar with Laura's older sister, Mary, and the explanation that scarlet fever caused her vision loss. But ...

Medical Mysteries Are the New True Crime ... Strayed has observed that Porochista Khakpour’s 2018 Sick —her account of life with chronic Lyme—“reads like a mystery.” In her 2021 book, ...

New book reveals 2,300-year-old medical mysteries By Qing Yang(China Daily) Updated: 2006-10-11 06:27. Tibetan medicine was first used in 300 BC and the complete medical system was finalized in ...

Many medical mysteries remain unsolved. If the book’s protagonist — our understanding of cell biology — seemed to be riding high again on new advances in immunology, such “self-assuredness ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.

10 Riveting Nonfiction Books on History’s Greatest Medical Mysteries After picking up one of these, you won’t ever take modern medicine for granted again. By Marla Mackoul | ...