Health & Medicine

Bob Marley died on May 11, 1980, at age 36 in Miami, Florida. His death resulted from metastatic melanoma that had spread from a nodular lesion under his toenail, leading to lun...

Reports of a woman pregnant for 40 years describe an extremely rare clinical scenario in which a gestational condition persists far beyond typical pregnancy timelines. In medica...

Mick Jagger surgeries and medical events are best understood as a series of well documented, nonemergency interventions rather than a single crisis. In 2019, he underwent a hear...

Prince died from an accidental fentanyl overdose, complicated by underlying atherosclerotic heart disease, after he ingested a potent synthetic opioid that was ingested as a cou...

Multiple myeloma is a hematologic cancer that arises from plasma cells in the bone marrow. When the topic turns to celebrities living with multiple myeloma, the query usually re...

Dolores O'Riordan, the lead singer and songwriter of The Cranberries, died unexpectedly in January 2018 at the age of 46. Her death was attributed to drowning in a bathtub after...

Bob Marley died at age 36 after melanoma progressed from a minor injury on his toe into metastatic cancer. In 1977, a soccer injury drew attention to a dark spot on his toe; a b...

When news emerges about a confirmed case of naegleriasis—commonly called a brain-eating amoeba infection—in Arkansas, the immediate question is often survival. Naegleria fow...

When media report that a person is on suicide watch, they are describing a heightened level of monitoring intended to reduce the risk of self-harm. In correctional and some clin...

An NFL team doctor is a licensed physician responsible for the medical care, injury prevention, and overall health of professional football players. These physicians, often spec...